Re: [Flashcoders] HTTP Statuscode 206 Partial content
Given that you have 1 server, one communication line and http server knows all of this, there is not much point in trying to get 100 things happening at once. The http server may be the source of your problem since it may have some settings to limit the number of simultaneous requests from broken or malicious clients to prevent DOS attacks. The Flash player's http layer may also be unhappy with so many simultaneous connections. With today's technology, the communication link should be the bottleneck and trying to ram more bits down the internet link by having lots of contention will not get you very much. Read them one at a time. Ron Josh Santangelo wrote: If there are 100 SWFs being loaded, the first thing I would check is that you aren't issuing 100 loadMovies all at once. Limit it to something like 4 at a time and wait for one to complete before issuing the 5th. -josh On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:12 AM, SBJ Consult wrote: Peter wrote: HTTP 206 Partial Content and LoadMovie This is a nasty bug, and a little arcane, but I'd greatly appreciate any help. I have a flash application (created in Flash MX 2004, Actionscript 2.0, saved as flash 6) which is loading a number of swfs (100 or so). The SWFs make up some character animations, and we kick many of them off simultaneously. We then have a loader that flips through them checking if they are loaded, and once they are all loaded, starts the application. 99.9% of the time it works fine, but every so often it hangs on the load screen and never leaves. I've only been able to confirm this happening in firefox, but one of our testers claims it happened in IE as well. I finally got some hard evidence was going on by looking at the headers (courtesy of the cool livehttpheaders firefox extension). An example is pasted in below (scroll to bottom), here's the order of events: -Flash app loads objects.swfs a couple times -First GET request is met with a happy HTTP/1.x 200 OK -Second GET request is met with not so happy HTTP/1.x 206 Partial Content And that's it, stuff pretty much just stops after that, movie never finishes loading, so presumably objects.swf is never really complete. My theory is flash is part of the way through getting the first objects.swf when it requests the second one, which results in turn in a PARTIAL CONTENT request, which for some reason isn't working as advertised in this situation. QUESTIONS: 1. Is my theory right? If not, any other ideas? 2. I can think of two possible fixes: -Switch to flash 7, use the MovieLoaderClass and use the onLoadError to trigger an attempted reload of the swfs. This would suck because the app is working fine in flash 6 now otherwise. -Tack ?foo= + Math.random() on the end of every swf load, so we get no caching. Downside is we get no caching, and we are loading a lot of swfs repeatedly. Anyone got any other bright ideas? I'd GREATLY appreciate any help or advice! _peter 206 Partial Content should mean either the file can not be completely downloaded because it is still being uploaded or the web server or file system is being overloaded and does not have the resources to access the entire file. Hows the server load? What do the web server error logs say? Are you using a PHP script to serve the file (I noticed the PHPSESSID)? If so is it getting overloaded or not handling file locks properly? I know this all sounds like stuff that should effect all browsers but sometimes it's just timing and also how different browsers handle different situations and errors. -=- RuneImp ImpTech - Web Design Hosting I have found the same problem getting HTTP statuscode 206 Partial Content and the flash / movie is stopping before end. My datacenter could not help me. Is there any answer to the above mentioned issues. Thanks in advance Søren Med venlig hilsen Søren Bjarne Jensen SBJ Consult ApS Vivaldisvej 111, 9200 Aalborg SV Telefon: 98 13 92 70 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sbjconsult.dk ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training
[Flashcoders] HTTP Statuscode 206 Partial content
Peter wrote: HTTP 206 Partial Content and LoadMovie This is a nasty bug, and a little arcane, but I'd greatly appreciate any help. I have a flash application (created in Flash MX 2004, Actionscript 2.0, saved as flash 6) which is loading a number of swfs (100 or so). The SWFs make up some character animations, and we kick many of them off simultaneously. We then have a loader that flips through them checking if they are loaded, and once they are all loaded, starts the application. 99.9% of the time it works fine, but every so often it hangs on the load screen and never leaves. I've only been able to confirm this happening in firefox, but one of our testers claims it happened in IE as well. I finally got some hard evidence was going on by looking at the headers (courtesy of the cool livehttpheaders firefox extension). An example is pasted in below (scroll to bottom), here's the order of events: -Flash app loads objects.swfs a couple times -First GET request is met with a happy HTTP/1.x 200 OK -Second GET request is met with not so happy HTTP/1.x 206 Partial Content And that's it, stuff pretty much just stops after that, movie never finishes loading, so presumably objects.swf is never really complete. My theory is flash is part of the way through getting the first objects.swf when it requests the second one, which results in turn in a PARTIAL CONTENT request, which for some reason isn't working as advertised in this situation. QUESTIONS: 1. Is my theory right? If not, any other ideas? 2. I can think of two possible fixes: -Switch to flash 7, use the MovieLoaderClass and use the onLoadError to trigger an attempted reload of the swfs. This would suck because the app is working fine in flash 6 now otherwise. -Tack ?foo= + Math.random() on the end of every swf load, so we get no caching. Downside is we get no caching, and we are loading a lot of swfs repeatedly. Anyone got any other bright ideas? I'd GREATLY appreciate any help or advice! _peter 206 Partial Content should mean either the file can not be completely downloaded because it is still being uploaded or the web server or file system is being overloaded and does not have the resources to access the entire file. Hows the server load? What do the web server error logs say? Are you using a PHP script to serve the file (I noticed the PHPSESSID)? If so is it getting overloaded or not handling file locks properly? I know this all sounds like stuff that should effect all browsers but sometimes it's just timing and also how different browsers handle different situations and errors. -=- RuneImp ImpTech - Web Design Hosting I have found the same problem getting HTTP statuscode 206 Partial Content and the flash / movie is stopping before end. My datacenter could not help me. Is there any answer to the above mentioned issues. Thanks in advance Søren Med venlig hilsen Søren Bjarne Jensen SBJ Consult ApS Vivaldisvej 111, 9200 Aalborg SV Telefon: 98 13 92 70 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sbjconsult.dk ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] HTTP Statuscode 206 Partial content
If there are 100 SWFs being loaded, the first thing I would check is that you aren't issuing 100 loadMovies all at once. Limit it to something like 4 at a time and wait for one to complete before issuing the 5th. -josh On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:12 AM, SBJ Consult wrote: Peter wrote: HTTP 206 Partial Content and LoadMovie This is a nasty bug, and a little arcane, but I'd greatly appreciate any help. I have a flash application (created in Flash MX 2004, Actionscript 2.0, saved as flash 6) which is loading a number of swfs (100 or so). The SWFs make up some character animations, and we kick many of them off simultaneously. We then have a loader that flips through them checking if they are loaded, and once they are all loaded, starts the application. 99.9% of the time it works fine, but every so often it hangs on the load screen and never leaves. I've only been able to confirm this happening in firefox, but one of our testers claims it happened in IE as well. I finally got some hard evidence was going on by looking at the headers (courtesy of the cool livehttpheaders firefox extension). An example is pasted in below (scroll to bottom), here's the order of events: -Flash app loads objects.swfs a couple times -First GET request is met with a happy HTTP/1.x 200 OK -Second GET request is met with not so happy HTTP/1.x 206 Partial Content And that's it, stuff pretty much just stops after that, movie never finishes loading, so presumably objects.swf is never really complete. My theory is flash is part of the way through getting the first objects.swf when it requests the second one, which results in turn in a PARTIAL CONTENT request, which for some reason isn't working as advertised in this situation. QUESTIONS: 1. Is my theory right? If not, any other ideas? 2. I can think of two possible fixes: -Switch to flash 7, use the MovieLoaderClass and use the onLoadError to trigger an attempted reload of the swfs. This would suck because the app is working fine in flash 6 now otherwise. -Tack ?foo= + Math.random() on the end of every swf load, so we get no caching. Downside is we get no caching, and we are loading a lot of swfs repeatedly. Anyone got any other bright ideas? I'd GREATLY appreciate any help or advice! _peter 206 Partial Content should mean either the file can not be completely downloaded because it is still being uploaded or the web server or file system is being overloaded and does not have the resources to access the entire file. Hows the server load? What do the web server error logs say? Are you using a PHP script to serve the file (I noticed the PHPSESSID)? If so is it getting overloaded or not handling file locks properly? I know this all sounds like stuff that should effect all browsers but sometimes it's just timing and also how different browsers handle different situations and errors. -=- RuneImp ImpTech - Web Design Hosting I have found the same problem getting HTTP statuscode 206 Partial Content and the flash / movie is stopping before end. My datacenter could not help me. Is there any answer to the above mentioned issues. Thanks in advance Søren Med venlig hilsen Søren Bjarne Jensen SBJ Consult ApS Vivaldisvej 111, 9200 Aalborg SV Telefon: 98 13 92 70 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sbjconsult.dk ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
