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   the smell of an undocumented feature
Wednesday, March 20 2002

Since I'm building a chat application, I thought I should study its network behavior at a basic level using a packet sniffer (this freeware one is pretty good). That's when I made yet another disturbing discovery of a thoroughly undocumented Flash "feature." Using the "loadVariables" method results in a post of all internal Flash variables to the server. In the case of my chat, this included the entire dialogue string, which can be very long. This flew in the face of all the work I'd done to ease demands on bandwidth, and I was understandably dismayed. Happily, though, the packet sniffer indicated that Flash's XML data operations do not post internal variable data, and so I migrated my last loadVariables operation to its XML equivalent.

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