[FLEX-26120] Accent characters in URL throws a Security Sandbox Violation

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 4.1 (Release)
• Component/s: Flash Integration
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Browser: Firefox 3.x; Language Found: French
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 03/Dec/10 11:18
• Updated: 03/Dec/10 11:18

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. I use the Bing web service with some city name (i.e Montréal) that have Accent. I used encodeUri to encode accents in the URI.
2. Create a URLLoader with this URL: http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/CA/QC/J4J3Z3/MONTR%C3%89AL/2252%20CH%20DE%20CHAMBLY?o=xml&key=<Bing_key>
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.load(new URLRequest("http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/CA/QC/J4J3Z3/MONTR%C3%89AL/2252%20CH%20DE%20CHAMBLY?o=xml&key=<Bing_key>"));

Actual Results:
The Flash Player (debug version) will popup an error window saying that there is a security sandbox violation (Connection to http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations/CA/QC/J4J3Z3/MONTRÉAL/2252 CH DE CHAMBLY halted - not permitted from http://127.0.0.1:8080/core/admin/WSSAdminFlow.swf)
Add a SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR listener on load and it will be catched.

Expected Results:
No error and have the event Event.COMPLETE called on the URLRequest

Workaround (if any):
Replace all accented characters from the URL by a non accented character and it will work.