I have Flex app that needs to request new data, via httpservice, every 10 to 15 minutes and was wondering how to achieve this.
FYI, because of the implementation of our app and distribution we can't use AMF or anything else to push data to the app so that is out. My first thought is to use a timer, but wondering if I do this and the user leaves the app up running 8 hours straight, for example, would they get a script timeout error; 10,000 seconds rule? The app will need to update every 10 minutes for as long as the user has the app open. I thought about doing a time/date stamp check every time the user moves the mouse then do an update if time difference is over 10 minutes, but I can't be guaranteed the user will move the mouse. Think monitoring dashboard application.
