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" 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"
> 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
> > 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
> >
>
