URLLoader hangs whole app for no apparent or catchable reason on OSX 10.8.2, Air 3.5
I've got a HTML/JS air app which connects to a REST interface on a remote server via HTTPS. It POSTs data to the interface every minute, sometimes more frequently but certainly no more than 3 times a minute.
Every time it connects, my code creates a URLRequest, a URLLoader, sets up some listeners on the loader, then sends the request. It's literally a textbook piece of code, lifted almost verbatim from Adobe's own examples and has worked for a year on OSX and Windows without any problems.
A couple of weeks ago my Macbook Air updated itself to 10.8.2. I think by coincidence it also updated to the latest Air 3.5 at roughly the same time.
As of that update, my app has begun to hang at random, but always as a result of URLLoader.load(). It can't be fixed except by Force Quit-ing and restarting. I've added trace and try/catch statements around literally every line of my interface code, but the answer is the same: it gets as far as the URLLoader.load() statement, then hangs.
- Nothing is caught by my error event listeners
- Nothing gets caught by my try/catch
- Nothing can be seen to have caused it in the OSX Console (besides the generation of the hang report).
- Nothing can be seen in the logs on the webserver providing the REST interface, except standard 200 requests being returned without fail, until the point of hang.
I've tried
- Updating to the Air framework 3.6 beta
- Updating my SDK to the latest version and rebuilding the app
- Running the app in ADL debugger or "properly" after installation
Nothing makes any difference. If I comment out the URLLoader.load() line, the app runs fine, indefinitely.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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