Socket access policy under Vista

[Lujunq]

Hi, for a long time I could easily make socket connections from my swf files
tom simples java servers on various ports (swfs embeded from activex, for
example). I used the simple python server policy file provided at this article
to open the needed tcp ports to my flash applications.

[url]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/socket_policy_files.html[/url]

This works ok on Windows XP machines, Flash player 9 or 10. However, no single
Vista machine seems able to find the 843 port to load the policy file. I tried
to use another server for the policy file, tried to use another port for the
policy (Security.loadPolicyFile("xmlsocket://localhost:8008");) but nothing
seems to work - I just can't make my flash applications connect on Windows
Vista.

Is this a known problem? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

[zazzo9]

I ran into a problem connecting to localhost in air on Vista -- apparently
Vista maps "localhost" to the ipv6 address "::1" which AIR does not understand.
Connecting directly to "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost" resolved things for
me.