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Weird query string variable behaviour (ActionScript 2)


I just discovered some strange behaviour in the Flash player if you try to change variables passed in through the query string before the movie has finished loading.
That is:
If a movie is loaded with the URL:
movie.swf?a=initialValue
and the movie contains a script that does something like this:
_level0.a = “some other value”
the value of a will get [...]