Tom Chiverton wrote:
On Wednesday 16 Apr 2008, rickarddahlstrand wrote:
I use HTTPService quite extensively and when I run my flex-app in
Firefox I suffer from slowdown after a couple of hours. I have tracked
this down to Firefox storing all XML-request I do as files in the
\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Temp\plugtmp-*\ directory. Even data
transfered over https.
At a guess, disable all your plugins and/or use a clean profile.
If that works, maybe you have a connection inspecting plugin installed ?
The plugin that causes this is Flash. ;) This behaviour is built into
Firefox, I have tracked it down in the source.
My problem seems to be that I need to add a random number at the end of
each request to avoid caching:
statusRequest.url="https://server/stat.api.php?text="; +
escape(s) + "&getlog=" + getlog + "&" + Math.random();
statusRequest.send(getlog);
This however seems to mean that I get a new file in the
plugtmp-directory for every request (which I do once every second).
Running the app for an hour gives me 3600 files that firefox needs to
remove when I close the app.
I have tried removing math.random, but then it works two times (with one
file in the cache) and then firefox stops sending out requests. I have
no idea why. This would solve one problem for me, but not the other.
Anyway, the problem is real. If you google on plugtmp you can see that
people are using it to extract videos from youtube and music from
pandora. Then go to any rpc-based Flexapp and have a look in the
plugtmp-directory yourself.
Rickard.
