{"id":1082,"date":"2021-02-25T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zewwy.ca\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2021-02-25T19:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T01:34:15","slug":"using-flash-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zewwy.ca\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/using-flash-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Flash in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>The Story<\/span><\/h1>\n

No one should have to use flash…. however, there have been some amazing things that were done with the framework at the height of its time.<\/p>\n

Now my issue was more around the fact that VMware, as I use VMware a lot. Happened to choose this framework for their Management Web Interface with 6.0~6.5, with only having fully depreciated it in 6.7. Why did they do this? Cause they didn’t want to rely on a Windows based framework anyway, AKA .NET. Say what you will about Microsoft and Windows, but when you look at the two frame works, it’s pretty clear which is still supported and which is clearly not…<\/p>\n

Anyway I digress, if you attempt to use the flash based interface, if you happen to still be on 6.0~6.5 and need access to the flash based interface. Well let’s see…<\/p>\n

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Wow, that was unreal useless…<\/p>\n

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Strange same results in new Edge Chromium (well ok that’s not to odd considering they are based on the same engine), I remember just seeing the weird new Flash logo with an information logo.<\/p>\n

I thought this might be due cause I never configured the old GPO’s which were used to define allowed sites for flash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I thought I remember setting it for another thing that used flash and if I navigate to that page…<\/p>\n

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Clicking Get Flash leads to the same online EOL page… alright. Not exactly the results I was expecting. I swear I remember it popping up that flash logo.. let me try one other machine to validate… Ok all browsers same results, IE simply doesn’t even load the page. I don’t use Firefox. Either way, one of two things happen you get the above snippets, or you get this Flash logo:<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Hunt for an Answer<\/span><\/h2>\n

My first google search brought me to a ghacks blog post suggesting<\/a> to use a web app called ruffle… no thank you.<\/p>\n

However lucky for me reading the comments another guy with a way nicer site (no dang ads cluttered everywhere), the guys name is Charles Wilkinson<\/a>. The rest of this blog post I’ll follow along with Charles’s to see how it plays out.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The Fix<\/span><\/h2>\n

He’s done such a good job with the basic detail I kind don’t even want to paraphrase it, so here’s a direct copy n paste of the How to Fix it from Charles’s blog:<\/p>\n

“Reading the\u00a0Flash Player Administrator\u2019s Guide<\/a>, in a section called:\u00a0Administration > Enterprise Enablement<\/strong>\u00a0we find the official solution.<\/p>\n

On any device that we want to enable our legacy app on, we need to edit the\u00a0mms.cfg<\/strong>\u00a0file that holds the configuration for Flash Player.<\/p>\n

This file can be found under:<\/p>\n