Posts Tagged ‘security’

FlashPlayerTrust not working? Try adding a protocol prefix

I wasn’t able to find anything about a new behaviour in the release notes, but it seems that Adobe changed the syntax for FlashPlayerTrust files with the update to Flash Player 10.0.22.87. Using

/Users/herb/workspace/ioccontainer/bin/IocContainer.swf

in your trust file as well as defining trusts for complete directories doesn’t work anymore, resulting in the infamous runtime Error #2148:

[Fault] exception, [...]

FlashPlayerTrusts: trusted local files w/o Settings Manager

You don’t need the Flash Player Settings Manager to set up trusts for local files. By creating FlashPlayerTrust files you can set up system-wide or user specific trusts for local files without a connection to the internet.