flash actionscript: To do this, you'll have to grab that query string and use it to write
out the <object>/<embed> tags, perhaps with PHP, ASP, or JavaScript ( ...
not Java! -- different language altogether).

JavaScript's location object will give you what you need; specifically,
the location object's "search" property. In HTML, for example, simply put
....

<script>
document.write(document.location.search);
</script>

.... into an otherwise empty HTML document. Test this page in a browser and
you'll see nothing. But if you append a query string to the end of your
file name in the address bar -- say, whatever.html?myVar=jammies -- you'll
see "?myVar=jammies".

This String (complete with question mark) is all you need to tack on to
your SWF reference in the <object> and <embed> tags. You'll have to use
JavaScript (or, again, some server side language) to write out those tags.

e.g.
document.write("<param name=movie value=\"sample.swf" +
document.location.search + "\">");


David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
"Luck is the residue of good design."

I have an autoresponse email that goes out and would like to have a link on
that email which, when clicked, will open a browser window and take the user to
my flash site and also advance the current movie to a particular point on the
timeline. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can implement that or if
it is not even a possibility? Thanks, Ryan

You can attach a '?frame=someNumber' to the end of the URL and then use that variable within your Flash file to automatically jump your movie to the correct frame number or better yet frame label.