One other issue with FileReference: On some Apache systems, it chokes and throws an error because of the mod_security module because of poorly formed HTTP headers: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-292
Please vote on that bug as well. Thanks. - Alex C --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Kun Janos" <kunja...@...> wrote: > > Hi, > > I had the same issue, I filed bug http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1419 > please vote. > Thanks, > Janos > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Battershall, Jeff" <jeff.battershall@> > wrote: > > > > Charlie, > > > > Yes, PITA, for sure. > > > > I think there are a couple of related issues with FileReference uploads > > and FF - particularly when SSL is involved - like sessions not being > > shared and such. FF evidently clones a browser instance to do the > > uploads. You can add a jsessionid on your request but that doesn't > > address this timeout thing. Hopefully these issues are on the radar for > > Flash Player 10. > > > > Jeff > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > > Behalf Of Charlie Hubbard > > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:27 PM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] FileReference's DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA > > event being dropped randomly > > > > > > > > Thanks Jeff. That just might work for what I'm doing. What a > > pain in the ass, but your suggestion is pragmatic. I'm sure others have > > encountered this problem. Any explanation about why Flex/Flash is not > > upholding it's end of the bargain? Is it just a simple issue of Flash's > > URLRequest timing out waiting on the serverr? My server is responding > > in about 500ms on the low end at around 200ms on the upper end. But, it > > still just drops some of the requests. > > > > Charlie > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Battershall, Jeff > > <jeff.battershall@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Charlie, > > > > I spent a lot of time on this. In my case it was only > > when using FireFox and when HTTPs was being used. Basically the long > > requests time out - it is upload file size dependent. What I ended up > > doing is listening for the COMPLETE event and then round-tripping to the > > server to retreive the data I wanted about the upload. When I did my > > upload, I passed a UUID so I had a common thread I could count on. > > > > Even though your issue may be slightly different, using > > a UUID in your URLRequest object may help you workaround the issue. > > > > Jeff > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Charlie Hubbard > > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:34 AM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] FileReference's > > DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA event being dropped randomly > > > > > > > > > > I'm having trouble getting a > > DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA event when uploading many FileReferences. > > It randomly drops events, but I get all of the progress events, and > > Event.COMPLETE. I only get some of UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA. I'm aware > > that UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA is not sent if the server doesn't return any > > data, but I'm sending data for all of these uploads (because it all > > traverses through he same code). So if I get even one callback I should > > get all of them in theory. My first theory was that my server process > > was taking too long and flash timed out the response so I offloaded what > > was taking so long, but that didn't improve anything. > > > > > > > > > > Any idea what's going on here? Any other ideas > > on what I can try? I'm using a Ruby on Rails server backend. > > > > > > > > > > Charlie > > >
