yep, the setting works when set to 10. Seemed to not work when set to 20. Anyways, summary is "long polling" and Flex
or Flash are not good compatriates. So, you will need to work out your own mechanism on the server or client
side to limit the sockets used/wasted. Painful but true.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import com.util.HTTPServiceProxy;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService;
private var urlOpenTasksDefault:String = HTTPServiceProxy.servercontext + "/blahblah?something=somethign";
private var waitRequestPart:String = "&wait=5000&lastUpdate=" // long polling period for now for testing
private var iResponses:int;
private function runTest(urlString:String):void{
var service:HTTPService = new HTTPService();service.url= urlString;
service.resultFormat =
"e4x";service.method =
"get";service.contentType=
"application/xml";service.addEventListener(
"result", httpResult);service.addEventListener(
"fault", httpFault);service.send();
}
public function httpResult(event:ResultEvent):void {
trace("httpResult " + iResponses++ );}
public function httpFault(event:FaultEvent):void {
trace("httpFault " + (iResponses++) + event.fault.faultString);}
private function test1(evt:Event):void {iResponses=0;
var reqs:int = parseInt(requests.text);
for( var i:int=0; i<reqs; i++ ){runTest(urlOpenTasksDefault);
}
}
private function test2(evt:Event):void {iResponses=0;
var reqs:int = parseInt(requests.text);
for( var i:int=0; i<reqs; i++ ){runTest(urlOpenTasksDefault+waitRequestPart+
"0");}
}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label text="Requests"/>
<mx:TextInput id="requests"/>
<mx:Button label="Test Requests-Responses" click="test1(event)"/>
<mx:Button label="Test Long Polling" click="test2(event)"/></mx:Application>
