# \[F8/AS2\] - Redirecting external resource when encountering 404/503 errors or timeouts

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-as2-redirecting-external-resource-when-encountering-404-503-errors-or-timeouts/233299>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 22, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-as2-redirecting-external-resource-when-encountering-404-503-errors-or-timeouts/233299 "2007-07-22T16:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Morgon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Morgon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Morgon)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f8-as2-redirecting-external-resource-when-encountering-404-503-errors-or-timeouts/233299/1 "2007-07-22T16:59:06Z")

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Hello,

I’m curious if anyone’s ever been able to monitor an external resource (image, in this case) for error response codes, and/or a specified timeout, and attempt to load another resource if encountered…

Hopefully that made sense, but I’ll explain further -  
Say I use loadMovie to grab an image: server1.tld/image.jpg  
If server1.tld goes down or has some temporary resource issues that give error status codes, I don’t want my application to just error out, I’d like it to instead try to get the image from server2.tld/image.jpg instead.

Has anyone been able to do something like this? Google has not been my friend on this one. Thanks 🙂