Ben Huson

If you have a Flash site which loads dynamically generated XML file using SSL, you may have experienced this problem.

Loading XML files in Flash over an SSL Connection fails in Internet Explorer if the Pragma:no-cache or Cache-control:no-cache HTTP headers are set on the XML file. By default, all dynamically generated files are returned by the server with the Pragma:no-cache header so that they are not cached by the browser.

To ensure that Flash loads the XML successfully, you should use the following function in PHP near the top of your code:

session_cache_limiter('private_no_expire');

Kate Silverton is an experienced, trained Broadcast Journalist specialising in news and current affairs. Kate is part of the BBC’s Breakfast team and continues to co-present BBC News 24.

Today we launched Kate’s official web site. The web site requires the Flash 6+ plugin and makes use of RSS feeds to display current news and related photos.

www.katesilverton.com