The big new feature in this release is compression. SWX files are now compressed by default. You can set the compression level of the SWX gateway by modifying the compressionLevel setting in the SWX configuration file (php/swx_config.php). Valid values range from 0 (no compression; fastest) to 9 (maximum compression; slowest).
Otherwise, the only other addition to this release is a very simple Flash Lite 2.1 example. POST appears to be broken in loadMovie() in Flash Lite 2.1 so make sure you use GET instead. This is not a huge limitation as the amount of data you send from the client to the server in mobile applications is usually quite small and should fit within the limits imposed by GET. However, I have already brought this issue to the attention of several people at Adobe at FITC and I will be working with them to make sure that this gets fixed in future versions of Flash Lite.
How would swx do that when you ‘for example’ need your data to POST like when you use the twitter API and want to post new messages or new friends ? That is done through POST and POST only at the moment. Should i see it like the flashlite app delivers the data to swx via GET and swx then does the call to twitter via POST ?
Yes i do need a break
Hey Folkert,
Yep, you would pass the status update to SWX via GET and then use POST on the server to talk to the Twitter API. In fact, I just added the update method to the SWX Twitter API, so you’ll be able to use that in the next release of SWX.