Question

I have a function in my AS3 that frequently calls a PHP file. Most of the time it works but occasionally it fails and throws the error I used in the title. I researched this fairly extensively and started capturing the event in the following manner:

public static function Bar():void {
    var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("path/to/file.php");
    var requestVariables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
    var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();

    requestVariables.event = "foo";

    request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
    request.data = requestVariables;

    loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
    loader.load(request);
    loader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError, false, 0, true);
    loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onIOComplete, false, 0, true);
}

private static function onIOComplete(e:Event):void
{
    var loader:Loader = e.target as Loader;
    if ( loader != null ) 
    {
        loader.removeEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);
        loader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onIOComplete);
    }
    Logger.log("LOADER COMPLETE");
}

private static function onIOError(e:IOErrorEvent):void
{
    var loader:Loader = e.target as Loader;
    if ( loader != null ) 
    {
        loader.removeEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);
        loader.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onIOComplete);
    }
    Logger.log("ERROR: " + e.toString());
}

In spite of the above code, I am still seeing the stream error occasionally. Is there more I should/could be doing?

Answer 1

Apparently the issue was that the php file I was calling was making a network call using file_get_contents in a case where I should have been using cURL. Once I changed them the second network call stopped failing thus I stopped seeing the error.