Multiple Upload Demo Updated.
Last night, I added some options and fixed one of the last remaining bugs in the Multiple File Upload Widget Demo.
Tonight I'll add more options to the demo.
I was thinking of add a 'tic' sound as each file uploads. Also don't you think the default text for the select files button should be "Select Files" and not "Browse".
One of the last things we want to add to the Flash control is licence control. From the top of my head, here's an overview of how the licensing might work:
- The flash component will have a secret key and the licensing server will also have this same secret key.
- When the component is called on a commercial website, the component will ask the server if the current website has a licence registered using its secret key to build a hash of the domain and time-stamp. The server will respond yes or no.
- Once the flash gets the response, it will be able to authenticate that it was the real server it was talking to based on the hash.
- If the server responded 'no', the "unregistered version, click here to register" text will display.
- The website will be sent a unique license hash for the current website that it will store and pass into the flash control for instant authentication in the future without the need to communicate with the licensing server.
- It will also be possible for users to download licence files for their website that prevent the need to communicate with the licensing server.
Of course all the falls flat on it's face if somebody cracks open the SWF file and obtains the secret key; and understands the licensing mechanism; and goes to extreme lengths to replica the licensing server or rebuild the licence key. But it's going to sell for $50, so so I don't think anybody would be bothered going to those lengths.
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Peter Coppinger aka Topper is a neurotic web monster who spends most of his chaotic life developing ColdFusion web applications when not drinking himself into a stupor and scheming his plans for world dominance.
