an interesting challenge

[Derek]

Terry Judd wrote:
> 
> On 14/01/10 10:51 AM, "Derek" <runrev at gmx.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 4. a secret text file gets generated and downloaded to the drive along
>> with
>> the standalone, the standalone finds it, reads it and deletes it? (no,
>> the
>> user might be confused and delete it before they launch the standalone)
> 
> There was some discussion over the last couple of days about the potential
> evils of Flash shared objects but I guess you could use them to your
> advantage in this case. If you included a small Flash object on the
> referring page that created a shared object with a name that reflected its
> relationship to both your standalone and the host website then you could
> get
> the downloaded Rev standalone to check for its existence amongst all the
> other shared objects when it started up for the first time.
> 
> Would that be better than a browser cookie? Would I still have to scan all
> the browser folders on their computer?
> 
> 
> 
> Still far from ideal and will definitely fail if the user downloads on one
> computer and installs on another. Seems like what you really want is a
> server-based routine that packages (zips) the standalone with a text file
> containing the required information on the fly and delivers the customised
> version to the user.
> 
> That is a great suggestion... then all Revolution needs to do is search
> their whole hard drive for the file (different people choose to download
> things to different places), and hopefully not run into permissions
> problems, and hopefully the user won't delete it before launching the
> standalone.
> 
> Maybe the best available option...
> 
> Terry...
> 
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