Actionscript 3 :: Http Web Requests From Flash Are Timing Out Or Or Never "returning"
Feb 21, 2011
I run a facebook game that makes http web requests to my server using AS3's URLRequest and URLLoader classes, then takes the json data that the server spits back and and processes it it, etc etc.. Lately I've had users complaining about server requests that never come back. They perform and action and the game just kinda hangs there waiting for a response indefinitely. If it were just every now and again I would blame it on the server just dropping the ball every so often, but some users complain about having this problem consistently at the same exact spot, while others don't get it at all.
The part that bothers me the most is that no matter what I do I cant reproduce the issue that they are having. How can I diagnose this issue without being effected by it? I'm stumped. what might be going on, or anything that I can do to get more information on what might be happening?
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