Need Flash popup to redirect parent

Question

I'm working on a project with a Flash object I have no control over, though I can get changes made by the developer. What needs to happen is for the Flash object to POST a value to a php file on my server, and upon a successful result, redirect the parent window to a new url, and then close the popup.

It's POSTing correctly, but the redirect won't go to the parent.

Right now, we have this javascript happening in the Flash, which works with straight HTML:

opener.location='view_cart.php';
self.close();

And it's just closing the window without a redirect.

Any suggestions?

I should add - just a redirect was working fine, but in the Flash window, which is not what we want.

Answer 1

As Andy Li indicated in the comments to the question, ExternalInterface, with a JavaScript function to do what we wanted, was the solution.