Do swf flash files need relative urls in html code?

I've added a flash ad to my website, in .swf format. I don't know much about flash (as I will probably prove in a sec!) and the advert wasn't created by me.

This is the code I'm using:

<object width="160" height="600">
<param name="movie" value="images/advert.swf">
<embed src="images/advert.swf" width="160" height="600"></embed></object>

This code seems to work fine. However, previously I was using absolute urls in the code, eg: http://www.example.com/images/advert.swf, and when I did that the file was not clickable on any page of my site that did not have the 'www'. So, if you went to example.com and tried to click the flash ad, it didn't work; if you went to www.example.com and clicked the flash ad it worked fine.

Does anyone know why this would be? Is it a setting in the formatting of the flash ad? I just feel like I would like to know for any future flash ads I set up. Thanks for any help.

 

Yes, there are problem like this in ad software because of url in configuration file (dont know exact about your ad script). Even sometimes if you give ip of website then it will work for ip only not with site name even both are same.

try to give only http://example.com/images/advert.swf . I hope it works for all cases.

 

Yep, this problem happens with many website's flash contents.
I dont know clearly its problem with adobe flash player or what.
But, you have fix to solve this issue. to fix this problem you should edit your .htaccess file in the root folder of your server/ftp files (create on with the same name if it not there in the root folder) and write ReWrite Engine code to redirect example.com to www.example.com. This is one of the way to fix this problem and i have used this one few months before.

Regards
- John

 

You can give relative URLs or direct URLs. I typically give the full URL (http and all).