Already did. :)

Question, for anybody who might still be reading this:

Did the original vbTetris Leaderboard hack that john did work well (or at all) with Netscape 6? I am going through fits here trying to get Netscape to send/receive variables to/from the PHP files. For example, when you play vbTetris, instead of displaying the board's name, it displays "dynamic field" and so on...

I don't have tons of Flash experience, so maybe I'm just missing something minor. Did anybody get it to work? Everything works great with Internet Explorer.

Thanks.

After a lot of reading and digging around, it looks like I am going to have to give up on Netscape compatibility for the time being.

Reason: There is a known bug with Flash/Netscape when sending variables via POST. The resulting HTTP headers (which would contain the variable name/data pairs) become corrupted. The only option would be to send the variables from the SWF to the PHP file via GET, but in this case the variable info (score var and score, etc.) would be seen in the URL bar and thus easily spoofed by a malicious user.

I considered adding basic encryption to the score (say, an MD5 hash) but that really isn't accomplishing much since it can be cracked so easily. There really is no way to make the transmittal of data between the SWF and PHP completely secure, but I think that by using GET we would just be inviting problems.

Unless somebody can come up with a better way, I am just going to dump Netscape support for now and concentrate on getting this sucker out the door. If anybody knows more about this issue or has any ideas, please, please let me hear them. Thanks.

If only explorer users could play, then 100 % of our visitors could.
Netscape support can always follow later when the hack is out for download. Then the reactions of the minor group netscape users can trigger support from the browserwizards.

I'll stay here all night refreshing. ;)

Yea, I basically decided that Netscape will wait.

Progress so far: I just finished recompiling "release" versions of the 5 games, with a bit more security in them (still not much though). With Netscape out of the equation, all variables are now passed via POST.

I am going to start pulling code now for the install instructions. Once that is done, Lani is going to do a test-install on his site for me, and if that goes well, the whole thing will get posted.

YAY! soon :) I can't wait until it is availible :(

I am working hard on getting this thing packaged right now. I am trying to do it with vbHacker but the thing keeps trashing my files. The alternative is to have you guys manually add 19 templates (!) which is not something I want to put anybody through!

:) I would add 19 templates :)

I just finished packaging it for the first time. Lanigironu is going to test-install it on his forum right now and let me know if it works or not. If all goes well, I will post it.

I *think* I got vbHacker to work correctly, in which case the installation should go pretty well. I'm sure there will be problems (always are!) but I am confident that this release does, at the very least, work correctly.

I've been running it for about a week on my site, and with over 10,000 games played everything is humming along nicely.

Can you also include a text file for those of us that like to be hands on with the code? :)