URLLoader + Firefox + Bad Domain Name

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This is driving me crazy.

I have a small piece of test code for accessing data on a server using URLLoader.


            var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
            configureListeners(loader);

            var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://somedomain.com");
            try {
            	label.text = "Loading XML...";
                loader.load(request);
            } catch (error:Error) {
            	label.text = "Unable to load requested document.";
            }

In IE, if I change “http://somedomain.com” to an invalid domain, a security error event fires within seconds; but in Firefox, no events ever fire and my textbox always just says “Loading XML…”. It never times out.

I saw this in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 with the XML.load() method as well. It will fail in IE but not in Firefox.

In previous versions of flash I have built a routine which monitors the XML.load() and if it hasn’t fired any events in a long time, I would stop it manually, but that just seems to hacky when this clearly a Firefox only issue.

Anyone run into this before, or have any suggestions for how to better deal with it?

Thanks!