AspUpload gets patched for Flash 8 File Upload implementation (Flash Player has a bug?)

This may be old news, but in the past (when Flash 8 came out) if you used Persist's AspUpload component to upload files from flash, the component would crash which in turn meant that any site using it on your server wouldn't work until the server was rebooted.. whether is was used with just asp or within flash from that point on. This was a pain but at the time we were able to implement Coldfusion file upload at the time so didn't have to worry about it.

We are currently working on a new uploader application in flash for a client and it has to be ASP on the server side. So, on that note I wandered off to the AspUpload page hoping that something had been done about it and to my delight they have fixed the component to work with Flash 8.

The interesting thing on their site though is that they claim that the flash player doesn't send the information to the server properly, hence the crash of the component.

Quote from Persist's site:
Version 8 of Macromedia Flash includes a file upload feature which allows a user to upload files from within a Flash applet instead of a multipart/form-data form. Due to what we believe to be a bug in the Macromedia Flash 8 implementation of file uploads, the data stream generated by such Flash applets is formatted differently than all major browser implementations, and that irregularity causes AspUpload to crash.

I wonder which is "in the wrong" on this issue.. I'm just glad that one of them decided it was worth it to address the problem.

Anyways, you can DL the patched version of the component here.

Posted by Graeme at January 5, 2006 06:17 AM