Many people send questions about this site via private email, which is fine. I’m happy to answer these questions. But often the same question is asked by multiple people working on similar projects. In an effort to connect these people, I set up a Make Data Make Sense discussion list. If you have a question others might have, please sign up.
One of these often-repeated questions is “will you add a crossdomain.xml file for my domain so I can load your feeds in Flash?” And I helpfully say “No, I won’t, because I don’t want to spend my time doing that for every domain that might want to reuse my feeds. Why don’t you just set up a simple proxy script on your own server to bypass the restriction in Flash?” In the most recent exchange on this issue, though, I discovered that I can just set up a generic crossdomain.xml file to allow access from any server. So now that crossdomain.xml file is on the server, and Flash-based feed readers are happy.
Ideally the discussion list will arrive at simple solutions like this faster than I could by answering questions privately. Twenty heads are better than one, right? I hope so.
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