Flash standalone player fails to load content via HTTP

From dis-Emi-A

I've submitted this bug to Adobe, but I guess like my previous bug (an easily reproducible crash) this will not be fixed. I am doing this write-up since others may have the same problem, and it is certainly not an easy one to track down.

The Standalone flash player fails to load SWF content via HTTP on certain connection types, presumably when too slow, or delayed connection times. I have tested this with the standalone Linux flash player 9.0.114, I'd test previous versions but Adobe no longer makes them available. I believe it may have worked in previous versions. I am using a 64-bit Linux, which may also impact the problem.

It is not always reproducible, but always for me, or under the valid conditions (that is, you may not get it, but if you do get, you will *always* get it).

You just get a blank white screen, whereas loading the same file locally, or via a local Apache install it works fine. Stress this, loading the exact same SWF on a local Apache instance works fine.

Further testing, I eventually installed mod_cband for Apache, which allows bandwidth limiting. Set at 200kb/s the program works fine, set lower than 100kb/s the white screen symptoms occur.

This appears to only affect Flash 9 content and/or content larger than a given size. Very small SWFs, less than 10kb still loaded without problem.