Thanks for your work on this Otto - and to those in the community who posted here. I've been racking my brain on this for a couple of hours and loathe the moment I clicked "install" on Flash 10.
@alexleonard - good idea.
Flash Player 10 Beta breaks file upload (49 posts)
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powstash
Posted 3 years ago # -
WordPressZone
Posted 3 years ago #Well, I think WordPress Should care about this and come up with a FIX in version 2.7.
We, as webmasters, can't control if our visitors or surfers download flash 10.. In fact, soon or late, most will download and install it.
Thus, every time they visit our site, they won't be able to (for example) open an embeded flash video in full screen mode, since the new flash 10, blocks wordpress from opening flash videos in full screen. And this is just an example.
Not to name all the problems we have when we write a new post.
It is always easier, to FIX the server side problem (wordpress script). Than fix millions of flash installations in each of the computers around the world, that visit our site.
One FIX for one site.
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alexleonard
Posted 3 years ago #It's working fine in the 2.7 beta - and boy is 2.7 looking slick :)
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bsaitz
Posted 3 years ago #hey cyberolf,
i tried your patch and now i have only the file uploader - the flash uploader is gone altogether.. hmm... any advice?
thanks!
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byrev
Posted 3 years ago #use non-flash link!
1. Click on “Browser uploader“
2. Click BROWSE [button]
3. Click Upload [button]
4. … and problem is solved. You can upload any files/media !!!for wp version 2.6.3; 2.6.5
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OperaManiac
Posted 3 years ago #you do realize that it is hard to upload several items using the non-flash uploader?
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Posted 3 years ago #It definitely looks like it's either a matter of upgrading to WP 2.7 beta (which is great), or downgrading flash to version 9 in another browser for uploading all your items in.
Don't think there's any other option at the moment.
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Posted 3 years ago #so flash 10 is compatible with wordpress 2.7 latest builds?
if this is true, i would update flash on my computer.
or maybe not... zooomr and flickr are also probably affected :(
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Posted 3 years ago #Well it's been working fine for me - I think they've dropped flash or something though - there was mention of Gears being used for the uploader, but I'm not clued in enough to know exactly what's going on.
2.7 is rocking though :)
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AllenAyres
Posted 3 years ago #@mikechambers: I'm not interested in discussing a solution. We don't write Flash code for WordPress, we used other freely available code, which Adobe broke. This is not a matter of us fixing it, it's a matter of us picking up their fixes, or us using a better solution than Flash.
Wow, Adobe makes a change to fix a security issue 6+ months ago and you guys won't even talk to them about it? I realize swupload is a 3rd party app, but it was WP's decision to use it. Flash is everywhere, either fix it (WP's upload) or include a better solution. I am puzzled by the public attitude.
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Posted 3 years ago #whoa one day old spam still remains on the forum!
anyways. i have not updated to flash 10 so i cannot confirm whether the latest builts of 2.7 work with it or not.
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lukew
Posted 3 years ago #I'm running WP 2.5.1
Is there a fix for this issue in this version? I've seen 'Browser Upload' mentioned a couple of times, but I can't seem to find any non-flash upload method for images. Any ideas?
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Wow, Adobe makes a change to fix a security issue 6+ months ago and you guys won't even talk to them about it?
Adobe's "security issue" is theoretical nonsense. I'm sorry, but they have yet to demonstrate any real-world attack, even though they claim one exists.
Furthermore, other systems exist that allow the same sort of functionality that they have crippled. Google Gears has no problem letting you launch a file browser window from Javascript; heck, they even created this functionality specifically because browsers lack it and people want it.
Even furthermore, the community in general TOLD them that their change was crap 6 months ago, and that it would break everything. What did we get in return? Dead silence, followed by them breaking everything in the world 6 months later. No, you know what? Screw Adobe. They're idiots.
I realize swupload is a 3rd party app, but it was WP's decision to use it. Flash is everywhere, either fix it (WP's upload) or include a better solution.
First off, it's not up to the WP team to fix it. They're using a 3rd party app. The choices are therefore limited to a) upgrade the app to a fixed version or b) use a different solution. WP went with option A for now. I'm still working on implementing option B for 2.8, in order to help WP ditch Flash entirely.
Second, it *is* fixed. SWFUpload created a workaround for it, and WordPress 2.7 includes that workaround. It makes the button look wrong in most browsers, so I consider it a bad hack (and an extreme embarrassment for Adobe for even suggesting such a stupid thing), but it does work.
I am puzzled by the public attitude.
That would be *my* attitude, mind you. My opinions are my own, nobody else's. And yes, I think Adobe really screwed the pooch on this one.
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Posted 3 years ago #Soooo...Just to make sure I'm understanding the bottom line of the banter here...basically the work around for my issue in 2.5.1 is to upgrade to 2.7?
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since78
Posted 3 years ago #So I used that patch to fix the flash image uploader and now when I try to log in to admin I get this:
http://since78.briangossett.com/wp-admin/
Any idea on how to fix it? Thanks!
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gatorgse
Posted 3 years ago #I went back to Flash 9, but still get the image was only partially uploaded message. Cleared js cache etc. Deleted and readded upload.php to wp 2.7. Any other suggestions?
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popac
Posted 3 years ago #Hi ppl,
here I pack all what you need when you want to back to Flash Player V9
Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/190103051/Flash_player_9.rar- Uninstall V10,
- Install V9 for Firefox etc.
- Check flash version...Note:
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etegration1
Posted 3 years ago #still no improvements on this? no one side is willing to change?
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gringaNC
Posted 3 years ago #Second... "it seems unlikely that Flash 10 will be able to do any sort of uploading of any kind." Is just completely untrue. Adobe is not removing uploading features in Flash 10. The problem is the interaction with the SWFUpload JavaScript library. Flash 10 does not allow you to open a file browse dialog except via a direct mouse click. It is that SWFUpload tries to open the dialog indirectly that causes it to fail.
This sounds like a reasonable security upgrade and it sounds reasonable to expect sites to fix their uploaders so that they comply with the security upgrade. Adobe thought it important enough to update despite knowing that it would cause this sort of thing to happen at Yahoo, WordPress, ..., etc.
In the meantime, I took the suggestion on another post to use the NextGen plugin instead and I'm happy to report that it works. I'm once again able to upload images. I also had the problem of not being able to add images from the media library. Running 2.7.1 on shared Unix/MySQL/Apache hosting that's never had this sort of problem before. Using FireFox 3.0.6, Mac OS X 10.5.6.
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