swf file to just delete flash cookies

Question

Hi, I'm trying to find a javascript method to delete flash cookies on a page, but with no luck. I know it can be obviously done through flash or flex, but the problem is I know nothing about flash, flex and actionscripts...So my question is: Is there a way to just load a prebuilt flash movie in a page, which just programmatically deletes all the flash cookies it finds? Could any of you please make one for me? I could find some actionscript code around the internet and didn't look complex, but I don't know how to use it... Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I'm not sure that it's possible to delete ALL flash Shared Objects from a webpage.

The Flash sandboxing / security rules means that SOs aren't cross domain. This means that one site cannot poison or steal SOs for another site.

This (unfortunately for you) means that a site cannot delete ALL the SOs using Flash.

As far as I know, the only way to really remove all the SOs is to go do it yourself. (There's a few programs to manage / help you do this I believe)

There are global security settings which can block all new SOs from being created, but that doesn't (last time I looked) clear up the ones that already exist.

Answer 2

A Flash cookie or SharedObject is defined with a name & a path. In order to clear it, you must first retrieve it using those values.

var mySoName:String = "name of your sharedObject";
var mySoPath:String = "path to your sharedObject";
var mySo:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal(mySoName , mySoPath);

After this you can simply call the clear() method to delete its data , the reference still remains though.

mySo.clear();

If you don't know what the values are for name & path, I'm afraid I don't know how you can deal with this.