boardsdeals.ie ad, Flash actionscript missing exception handling.

ressem

Hi.
I'm finding that the most frequent cause of boards stalling on me is the boardsdeals.ie flash based ad crashing with the unhandled exception...

Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://mpu.boardsdeals.ie/dealdata.php?pw=mdflash
	at com.maddog.boardsdeals.controller::XMLCommand/update()[/Volumes/Work/Mad Dog 2010/boards_dealsbanner_boa365/flash/scripted banner 2/com/maddog/boardsdeals/controller/XMLCommand.as:29]
	at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
	at SetIntervalTimer/onTimer()
	at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()
	at flash.utils::Timer/tick()

In Firefox 3.6 and 4, this causes all currently running flash objects in the browser process to crash. In Chrome as it is threaded differently, it causes just that process to stall, until the plugin crash handler appears.

My Flash version is 10,2,154,25. Though this has been a frequent occurance across a number of previous versions.
Cheers,

Conor

A change has been made to avoid this problem. Can you let us know if it continues?

ressem

Will do, thanks.

ressem

The line number has changed in MagDog's XMLCommand script but it's still occurring.
Hibernating while the front page is displayed in a browser seems to bring it about each time (though it is not the only condition to cause this). As mentioned before it only happens with this boardsdeals. Problems in other flash objects on other sites are much more rare.
I have cleared out the Flash and browser caches since the change was made.

Cheers

Error #2044: Unhandled ioError:. text=Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://mpu.boardsdeals.ie/dealdata.php?pw=mdflash
	at com.maddog.boardsdeals.controller::XMLCommand/update()[/Volumes/Work/old work/Mad Dog/Mad Dog 2010/boards_dealsbanner_boa365/flash/scripted banner 2/com/maddog/boardsdeals/controller/XMLCommand.as:38]
	at Function/http://adobe.com/AS3/2006/builtin::apply()
	at SetIntervalTimer/onTimer()
	at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch()
	at flash.utils::Timer/tick()