in reply to Flash not displaying

is your connecting.swf file located in cgi-bin? if not, make sure you specify the valid location... like: ../connecting.swf or something similar.

also, if you intend on printing the html like this, why not qq[] instead of escaping?

print qq[<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
+codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swf
+lash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="400" height="300">\n];
print qq[  <param name=movie value="../connecting.swf">\n];
print qq[  <param name=quality value=high>\n];
print qq[  <embed src="../connecting.swf" quality=high pluginspage="ht
+tp://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=
+ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" heig
+ht="300">\n];

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Re: Re: Flash not displaying
by stephane (Monk) on Mar 10, 2002 at 10:11 UTC
    Maybe your 'connecting.swf' file should NOT be in the cgi-bin directory.

    Of course this depends on your configuration, but here it looks like your http server is trying to execute the .swf before sending it out since it is located in cgi-bin.

    Move it somewhere else (at the document root of your web server for example) and it should work just fine.
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      I would concur, your code says... 

      print "  <embed src=\"connecting.swf\" ...

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      which means a browser is going to try an load connecting.swf out of the same directory as the URL of the page that has it embeded -- in your case /cgi-bin. But .swf files are not executable, and your webserver is complaining that connecting.swf can't be executed.

      Move the SWF to some other directory on your server, and refer to it with a URL relative to your CGI ("../../wakko/dot.swf") or relative to your docroot ("/yakko/wakko/dot.swf").

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        Thanks, it appears you where right and it was trying to execute the .swf file from the cgi-bin and not embed it in the page.
        Chris
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