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Andy...

First, fabulous last name you've got there. ;0

Second, if you have a reproducible crash then I strongly recommend
opening a support incident so we can get someone in support assigned to
test it and escalate to engineering if necessary.

You can do that through forms or phones at
http://www.macromedia.com/support/

-- Regards,

Bentley Wolfe
Senior Escalation Engineer, Flash
Macromedia

Forum,

I noticed what I think is a bug with Flash Player 8 today. When I load a
Flash movie into an HTML page locally, Internet Explorer 6 crashes if the movie
has an fscommand and I pass a long query string to the movie. Flash Player 7
handles both ok.

I've worked up some code samples that duplicate the problem, but I'm not sure
how to attach them to this message... Anyway, the basic steps to duplicate it
are:
1) Install Flash Player 8.
2) Create a new FLA. I use Flash MX 2004, but other versions might cause the
same problem.
3) Add an "fscommand" in Actionscript to the FLA. Scene 1, frame 1 works
fine, but anything will do as long as the fscommand is called. Any fscommand
should work (showmenu, allowscale).
4) Publish the FLA, including an HTML page, as Flash version 7 (5 or 6 should
cause the bug also).
5) Edit the HTML page, adding a long query string to the <param name="movie"
value="....swf?________"> tag. The query string should be at least 255
characters long, and you can tweak it to find the right length depending on the
size of your SWF file name and the location in any subfolders.
6) View the HTML page in Internet Explorer 6.0.
7) The browser should crash, with varying alert boxes. If you get one with
IE's error details to send to Microsoft, the details will probably be:

AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2800.1106 ModName: flash8.ocx
ModVer: 8.0.22.0 Offset: 0009a065


Has anyone else noticed this problem? Any workarounds, besides not using a
query string?

Thanks,

Andy Wolfe