I've got an E4X HTTPService in Flex that is calling a servlet which returns an XML document. Approximately 80% of the time, the servlet works fine and the HTTPService result is a valid XML doc -- the rest of the time, the HTTPService is giving me a fault:
[RPC Fault faultString="Error #1088: The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed." faultCode="Client.CouldNotDecode" faultDetail="null"] After taking a look at the servlet directly in the browser (removing Flex from the equation), I have not noticed any issue with the XML returned and we have run it through several online validation tools. The servlet code that generated the XML is fine as well, we have checked that numerous times. I thought that the problem might be the resultFormat of the HTTPService (currently E4X), so I changed it to 'text' so I could see if there was any special characters or issues with the XML after Flex called the servlet. I discovered that there are seemingly random special characters being appended to the end of the document (after the end tag). The string of random special characters ranges from 2-10 in length. Note: I have since put the resultFormat of the HTTPService back to e4x. Does anybody have any idea why this might be happening? We have observed this on Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux platforms, in IE7, Safari, Firefox (Mac) and Firefox (Ubuntu). Thanks for your help, Brian
