[Gnash] Re: Gnash Digest, Vol 50, Issue 2

[dww]

I did a build of 12206, and did a sudo make install, and cleared the you
tube cookies and I still get the error message, is there anything else I
that I need to do?

Thanks
Dennis

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>    1. Gnash and YouTube cookies (Rob Savoye)
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> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:20:34 -0600
> From: Rob Savoye <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Gnash] Gnash and YouTube cookies
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> For the last few months Gnash has had a problem, with cookies on
> YouTube. The issue was you always get a "an error occurred, try again
> later" message instead of the video. This required the user to block all
> YouTube cookies as a workaround.
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> For the curious, the problem turned out to be the cookie YouTube sends
> had regional information setts in it that required those same values to
> be retransmitted with the HTTP headers, or Google's server's wouldn't
> handle the redirect correctly. This used to work correctly in Gnash
> using XPCOM, but XPCOM has been depreciated. So the new support uses
> NPAPI to do the same thing in a much less complex manner.
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> I finally fixed this a few days, (revno #12202). New deb & rpm snapshot
> packages without this problem are on our http://www.getgnash.org site.
> This used to work correctly in Gnash using XPCOM, but XPCOM has been
> depreciated. So the new support uses NPAPI to do the same thing in a
> much less complex manner.
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> Also Gnash should now work with all YouTube videos, thanks to some help
> from the YouTube developers at Google. :-)
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>       - rob -
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