Comments on: Plone and Flash Player 10

By: David

David — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:04:27 +0000

Jon, that’s great. I’ll check that out. Thanks for the update.

By: Jon Stahl

Jon Stahl — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:47:25 +0000

My colleague David Glick wrapped the fix up into an installable product.

http://plone.org/products/products-flash10fix

By: sunflower

sunflower — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:41:16 +0000

Thany you! This post did help me!
The fix the was submitted on the Ticked worked for me, using Plone 3.1.2.
http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8624

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:57:26 +0000

hello…

i’m using plone 3.17 and the Archetypes/Field.py looks like this

header_value = contentDispositionHeader(
disposition=’attachment’,
filename=filename)

i changed these lines to the ones suggested but it broke my entire site i.e. the content of pages was relaced with

so then i just replaced the word “attachment” for “inline” and like magic all Flash content appeared in my site again…

this was a disaster though… since it messed up my permissions bigtime… admin user couldn’t even edit a page. i replaced the file with the original but still had the same error, and eventually i had to revert the entire site from backup.

i’m trying to get ATFlashMovie working again. This fix http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/fixing-plones-publishing-of-flash-content-in-plone-3-1-6-and-earlier/ gets some of my flash that wasn’t inserted with ATFlashMovie to appear… The fix for ATFlashMovie on this page doesn’t work though. The only way to get it to appear was with Bernards suggestion that broke my site. I have lots of Flash inserted with ATFlashMovie and would really appreciate any suggestions to get it working again.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:13:31 +0000

Just wanted to followup and say that the file.py fix did work. I think it was just a caching issue I wasn’t aware of that was throwing me off.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:24:47 +0000

Hey guys,

I just wanted to say I’ve also added a patch for this problem in the Archetypes Product as we use a lot of custom type that has a file field.

* open up Products/ArcheTypes/Field.py
* Look for the “download” function in the “FileField” class
* modify the following line:
header_value = contentDispositionHeader(’attachment’, instance.getCharset(), filename=filename)
:: to ::
arr = filename.split(”.”)
header_value = contentDispositionHeader(’inline’ if arr[len(arr) - 1] == ’swf’ else ‘attachment’, instance.getCharset(), filename=filename)

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:21:40 +0000

Hi Anthony — I haven’t tried the fix yet. We’re still on 2.5.3 so am a bit hesitant to apply it. Thanks for the advice though. I’m surprised it doesn’t work. The fix appeared to change the content-disposition header to inline for .swf Files. Interesting!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:52:11 +0000

David, have you tried implementing the fix in the ticket? I added it as shown to our staging server and restarted, but it didn’t fix it. But ticket notes it was tested in 3.1.6 and we are in 3.1.5. Not sure if that makes a difference.

By: David

David — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:24:52 +0000

Thanks for this Jim. From looking at some of the mails to plone-users this week this problem is starting to rear its ugly head all over the place.
D.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:40:49 +0000

Thanks for the info – it’s submitted to the plone.org bug tracking system at: http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8624