[Flashr] Changes on flickr - update your applications

[Doug Marttila]

Thanks Kelvin!

web services - so great - and so annoying

doug

On 8/16/06, Kelvin Luck <kelvin at kelvinluck.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Flickr have just announced a change in how the Flickr API is accessed:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-flickr/message/2034
>
> Basically the place where API calls connect to has changed. This has a
> big impact on all flash applications connecting to flickr because the
> removal of the crossdomain.xml file from flickr.com will stop all
> existing applications from working!
>
> I've patched Flashr to avoid this problem:
> https://mirror1.cvsdude.com/trac/osflash/flashr/changeset/54
>
> As you can see, the changes are very simple, but unfortunately you will
> either need to download the latest version of Flashr from subversion or
> make the changes you see in the page linked above and re-export your
> applications for them to continue working. As you can see, I made the
> changes both to the 0.4 version and 0.5 version of Flashr - you'll only
> have to update one file, the one corresponding to the version of Flashr
> you are using.
>
> I've contacted Flickr asking them to rethink this change which will
> break every flash application that connects to flickr but I'm not
> holding my breath on a change of heart from their side.
>
> On a brighter note, this will hopefully speed up the official release of
> 0.5 - it is basically ready to go but I've been waiting until I had a
> little site ready for it - I'll try and get that done ASAP!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kelvin :)
>
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