I have a program (.swf) that makes a few different calls to our server, in AS 3.0, Flash Player 10. This program is run locally, not on a server and not embedded in a web page. The calls work perfectly sometimes, other times all calls get an IOError, “Error opening URL.”
The only way that seems to fix it is if I open up a web browser and put the server URL in and go to that page in the browser. Once I do that all server calls suddenly start working again, at least for a little while.
My server guy doesn’t see any attempts in his logs which makes me think the problem is on my side of things. He’s running .net on a Go-daddy server if that helps.
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[]I have tried the whole passing a random number with the URL but it still happens.
[]I have changed flash security settings to trust my application folder as well as our webserver’s root URL, still happens.
[]I have installed the latest flash player from adobe.com.
[]this happens on multiple computers running the same swf.
[]Computers are running Vista, hehe please don’t just say “there’s your problem right there.”
[]I have made a whole new swf as well and ran that when it happens, still can’t connect.
[]Closing and restarting the swf doesn’t reset it.
[]I have been searching online for a while, figured I’d give it a shot here.
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I am using a URLLoader and a URLRequester for my 2 way communication with the server, which works fine, sometimes.
//Here is the basics of my code
request = new URLRequest(ActivationPath);
request.data = getDataToPass();
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
loader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, doSuccess, false, 0, true);
loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, doFail, false, 0, true);
loader.load(request);
I think Flash might be breaking communication with the server for some reason at random times, not allowing any new calls to the server.
Maybe Flash has a bug?
When it fails, it traces: Error opening URL 'http://www.myServerName/login.aspx?random=1754’ (I changed our server name in the URL for this post)
then calls my doFail function
Once again, my code works perfectly, until it gets to that weird state of not being able to connect to the server.
Please help. Thanks,
-Todd
