Flex Monkey Patches

Earlier this week I was helping a customer trouble shoot a webservice crossdomain.xml issue.
I pointed him to a blog post I published a while ago as a reference on how to code webservice stuff in actionscript instead of mxml:

http://flexmonkeypatches.com/flex-webservice-with-auto-repeat-and-increasing-timeout/

I was a little embarrassed to find that my sample didn’t work anymore.
The code was fine and the app worked when the swf was run from Flex Builder (thus avoiding sandbox security issues). I hate saying “do as I say and not as I do”, so I decided to took a closer look.

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This issue came to me from a customer who wanted to catch the timeout of a webservice and then repeatedly re-dispatch the same webservice passing the parameters/data from the original call, but with a larger timeout, until some max timeout or max number of tries was reached.

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