How Adobe AIR application can find out what URL it was downloaded from?

Question

We have an Adobe AIR application which could be possibly downloaded from multiple domains. And when it's run, it should connect back to the site it was downloaded from to get data to show to the user.

So far we have a separate application build for each domain with a site URL hardcoded into it. And I wonder is there a way for AIR application to find out at runtime the URL (or at least domain) from which it was downloaded?

What we would like to have is a single downloadable binary served from all different domains, which still can know it's origin URL.

Answer 1

How should this work? The only solution i see (independent from AIR) is that you deliver an extra (properties) file with the application, containing the URL downloaded from. So you dont need to build a separate app for each domain, but only package a different domain-file with it. The app then reads this file and executes some context sensitive stuff.

Answer 2

There's no direct way to do it.

Here are some options which come in mind:

• Build different versions for each site (this could be automated)
• Let user choose the site at first launch
• Try to guess it using using whatever resources you have (timezone, language, etc)

Answer 3

When the user downloads, you could store their IP address in your central DB. Then when the app is installed and runs the first time, the app could hit your central DB to match up their IP address with the server they downloaded from.

Answer 4

A cookie with a specific name being stored on a download page, and the AIR app looking for that? Though that might not work for direct downloads. It might also be hard to pull off since knowing the specific browser used to download it would be an issue.

Answer 5

There's no function to retrieve such information, it would just make no sense if you think about it.

The most stable way is to include an external configuration file into the package.

Note that you can use ANT to automate this process for this final deployment.

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