||unity-dev|| testing Unity's policy file server

yup, that's all definitely true. (except for the stupid adobe part. as 
much as it's annoying, security is critical for flash player's success. 
just recently, usatoday.com was subject to a redirect attack that 
exploited flash player's old security model. if flash player gets a 
reputation for being insecure, the platform will die quickly.)

jayson, have you tried the patch approach yet? for testing purposes, 
we'd like to get as many installations as possible with the patch 
approach while we work on the real fix.

colin


Discussion list for Unity developers. wrote:
> fwiw, I took an old copy of Unity1 and simply modified the room dispatcher
> to wait for the policy request, and then to send out the policy from a file
> system file. ..this is working for me and a few clients right now without
> issue.. the downside is that it's a second "application" to manage, and uses
> up more resources than should be necessary.. but it works.. no restart of
> the primary service or changes otherwise
> 
> this could be done by any simple server created with any language running
> along side U2 -- in java, vb or whatever.. it literally just has to accept
> connections on port 843 (or whatever you want), and wait for the request,
> and then send out the policy data and terminate the connection. In my case,
> 843 worked easily enough with no code changes anywhere else whatsoever.
> 
> stupid adobe.
> 
> 
> 
> -Jayson
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Discussion list for Unity developers. <
> unity-dev at moock.org> wrote:
> 
>> HI all and thanks for all your replies and sorry for being so stressed...
>>
>> so here is the result of testing with realterm:
>>
>> each time i'm clicking on "open" button with mydomain.com:843, unity
>> log.txt
>> write the following:
>>
>>
>> Exception in thread "Thread-5" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>> org/moock/unity/core/ClientBufferedReader
>>        at
>>
>> org.moock.unity.opt.policyserver.PolicyServer$Client.<init>(PolicyServer.java:122)
>>        at
>> org.moock.unity.opt.policyserver.PolicyServer.run(PolicyServer.java:85)
>>        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
>>
>> i have 2.0.2 release running for theses tests...
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Discussion list for Unity developers." <unity-dev at moock.org>
>> To: <unity-dev at moock.org>
>> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 8:17 AM
>> Subject: ||unity-dev|| testing Unity's policy file server
>>
>>
>>> a quick note for those troubleshooting unity's policy file server.
>>>
>>> To test whether the Policy File Server is running properly on the
>>> intended port, use a terminal to telnet to the port, then send the
>>> string "<policy-file-request/>" followed by a null byte (ASCII 0). On
>>> Windows, the free software RealTerm (http://realterm.sourceforge.net)
>>> can be used to connect and send the required message.
>>>
>>> Steps for testing with RealTerm:
>>> 1) on the Display tab, check "Half Duplex"
>>> 2) on the Port tab, in the port pulldown, enter your domain and port in
>>> the following format:
>>>
>>> yourdomain.com:nnn
>>>
>>> (where nnn is your port)
>>> 3) Click "Open"
>>> 4) on the Send tab, in the first pulldown menu to the left of "Send
>>> Numbers", enter <policy-file-request/>
>>> 5) click Send ASCII
>>> 6) click the "0" button
>>>
>>> if the policy file server is working properly, you should see the
>>> contents of your policy.xml file appear in the terminal window.
>>>
>>> colin
>>>
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