I’ve built a basic RPC program using FluorineFX (.NET) on the backend for my AMF service. Everything works fine, i.e. I can make calls to the exposed functions.
However, when I looked at Network Monitor in Flash Builder to further examine the network traffic, and then view the Raw Data for the AMF response, it doesn’t seem to be compressed/encoded. Also, the response size matches the non-compressed content. My understanding is that these things would be binary. Is there something wrong with my solution or assumptions?
Example: a response (some line breaks added) containing a short array (notice the unencoded body content):
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:06:49 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: application/x-amf
Content-Length: 363
Flex Message (flex.messaging.messages.AcknowledgeMessage)
clientId = 29eb2c7f-974b-4bae-8d28-98d4b4dd0547
correlationId = B556E5C3-5476-A92C-2CEC-B4163ABCD1C8
destination = fluorine
messageId = 92675e09-0bc0-498f-b017-7e601b740563
timestamp = 250290640
timeToLive = 0
body = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
hdr(DSId) = 6b42848939804b7592eb956797d4eef4
It looks like Network Monitor (available only in Flash Builder Premium) doesn’t ever actually show raw AMF data. However, I was mostly interested in response size (i.e. for optimization), which is available. The Response Size (bytes) in the Tree View shows the size of unencoded response, but you can get the encoded size from the Content-Length line in the Raw View.