Why is Flash demanding a crossdomain.xml file when the .swf and http target are both on localhost?

Question

I\'ve got a small client/server test application where I have a Flex app that makes an HTTP request of a server app. The server app is a script running on my local machine, lis

Answer 1

Using the policyfile.txt I figured out that the policy file was denied because there was no Content-Type specified by the server. This explains why it was impossible to find anything blogged about it.

Hope this helps someone.

In Flex 4.5 Mac /Users/[YOUR_USER_NAME]/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs>tail -f policyfiles.txt