php session var issue with flash and firefox (but NOT IE)

Issue:  php session var issue with flash and firefox (but NOT IE)

after a login scenario we would send our users to a tab navigator, one of which contained an embedded flash movie

when the swf was hosted on another site (amazon s3 to be exact) that has “https”, there is a bug in the flash player getting the right cookie from all browsers but IE (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera specifically)

moving the swf directory to a server that was just “http” solved this issue

this is an official flash bug, a related scenario is detailed here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3366616/as3-file-upload-ioerror-2038

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murphy