How to make flash work with PhantomJS?

Question

I'm using PhantomJS 1.4.1 (support for plugins like Flash was removed in 1.5) complied with --qt-4.8.

I cannot get Flash to be enabled inside PhantomJS. I use the --load-plugins=yes option. I set up QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH to all the paths that contain libflashplayer.so:

QTWEBKIT_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/browser-plugins:/usr/lib/flash-plugin:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugin:/usr/lib64/flash-plugin:/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins:/usr/lib64/opera/plugins

I can see in strace that PhantomJS does find libflashplayer.so:

stat("/usr/lib64/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=18782520, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=18782520, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=18782520, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=18782520, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=17047372, ...}) = 0
[..]

On the same server, Flash works fine with Firefox 10.0

Any idea why Flash is not being used by PhantomJS?

Answer 1

This document may be helpful: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/qtwebkit.html#netscape-plugin-support.

In all cases, search the wiki pages and/or mailing-list for PhantomJS position on Flash (and other plugins). In short: if it works then please use it, otherwise it is not supported.

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