Comments on: Using Shared Objects: Login Process with Remember Password

By: vikrant

vikrant — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:26:26 +0000

HI Andrei,
I am also facing the same issue. However i want arrayCollection into a sharedObject. Things are not working. Please find my comments in http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=lsos_3.html

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:21:20 +0000

Mandy, in what way? Do you want to have and array of SharedObjects? Or do you want to store and ArrayCollection into a SharedObject?

By: mandy

mandy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:36:27 +0000

Can this sharedobject being used on an arraycollection?

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:32:16 +0000

Hello Pip! It is a good practice to encode the values before writing them into a Share Object. You can use MD5 from AS3Crypto. Read this article.

By: Pip

Pip — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:00:43 +0000

I would really question the security of storing the password as plain text inside an LSO. Surely it would be better to encrypt it? As it is at the moment I was able to read the password by simply opening the following file in a text editor.

/Users/John/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/42YR5M7A/www.flexer.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/shareobjectapplication.swf/loginData.sol

By: Andrei Ionescu

Andrei Ionescu — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:25:49 +0000

Due to security issues the only place Flash Player is allowed to save something physically is in its sandbox. It is a good thing not to have the option to change the physical path for saving SharedObject because otherwise mallware, spyware and all sorts of evil applications that do bad things will be saved on our computers. Although getLocal static method has localPath parameter there you can specify the availability (and avoid some conflicts) of a shared object to other swf applications in the same domain. SharedObject has also getRemote method that allow you to save share objects remotely on another server. This may be helpful to you but you need special server software like LiveCycle Data Services (old Flash Media Server), Red5, etc.

By: Virgil Cristea

Virgil Cristea — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:46:58 +0000

No since the saving/loading is handled by the player itself.
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By: Harish

Harish — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:38:17 +0000

Hi, Can u tell me how to change shared object pathe from “C:\Documents and Settings\Harish\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\D8F43EBD\localhost\Sample\Sample.swf” to My “D:\Sample” folder.

Plse help..

Thank you