Getting a wordpress.com blog to serve crossdomain.xml

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  higgis · Member · Nov 2, 2009 at 4:30 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’m looking at using a hosted wordpress.com blog for a project, but I need to be able to publish a crossdomain.xml file so that Flash apps from other domains can load things like RSS feeds and call the XML-RPC interfaces. Does anyone know if this is possible, and, if so, how to go about it?

  Thanks,
  James

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 2, 2009 at 5:01 pm

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  Crossdomain stuff cannot be done here as far as I know. That is a spammer thing and wordpress.COM does not do things that enable spammers.

  If you are talking about displaying RSS feeds in pages here, that cannot be done. Again, that is a typical spammer thing.

  Also, flash and javascript are not allowed here due to security concerns.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 2, 2009 at 5:03 pm

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  Also, you cannot upload XML files – or HTML files here.

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  higgis · Member · Nov 3, 2009 at 2:02 pm

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  OK, thanks. Not sure I’m with you in saying “that is a spammer thing”. How is wanting to present an RSS feed published on wordpress.com in a Flash app on another domain “spam”?

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  wpadvanced · Member · Nov 3, 2009 at 2:13 pm

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  It’s a tool spammers use, and Wp.com doesn’t know who’s a spammer and who’s not. Also, I don’t think you can embed flash on Wp.com?

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  higgis · Member · Nov 3, 2009 at 3:32 pm

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  I’m not trying to embed Flash on wp.com – I’m trying to read a feed published by wp.com. The whole point is that the Flash is deployed on a *different* domain, hence the need for crossdomain.xml on the WP domain.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 3, 2009 at 3:35 pm

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  You cannot upload XML or HTML files to wordpress.COM. crossdomain.XML would have to be placed in the root directory of the blog. You cannot do that here.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 3, 2009 at 11:29 pm

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  You would have to host the blog elsewhere, not just add a different domain to a WordPress.com blog.