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David_van_Kooten
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March 12, 2007
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Connections don't close in ie 6.0

  • March 12, 2007
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At our company we have built a video/chat application with multiple rooms and a lobby using FMS2. The application runs fine in most browsers but when I open another window in ie6 (apart from the window where the flash application plays), visit a different website and close the window where our flash application resides, the stream keeps playing (you can still hear the sound of the application).
I was wondering if this is this a known bug.
Has anybody experienced this before?
Is there a way to prevent this bug?

This is a problem which occurs when opening our site in Internet Explorer 6.0 only.

Thanks in advance,

David
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    wrider
    Participating Frequently
    May 13, 2009

    This is still an issue, we run a video/chat app also on our site. We experience the same issue with IE 6,7 (who knows about IE 8, or any other browsers for that matter), the person leaves the page and the player is still loaded in the 'background' causing a 'ghost' connection for anywhere from 30secs on up to 30mins.

    I even have a function in my main.asc that 'talks' to the client SWF to help prevent 'ghosting' connections, but the SWF responds like it's still in use with IE 7.

    IE: Person using IE 7.0 comes to site, logs into chat, chats for bit then leaves or leaves immediatly, either way when they leave they 'hang' in the list for anywhere from 30secs to 30mins, meanwhile FMIS is talking with the SWF (following it with trace code) like he is still sitting on that page.

    Now I have been able to repeat this in my development environment, if they click to leave and goto another page and sit there it 'ghosts', but if they goto another page after the first it drops the connect. So 2 clicks away drops the connection properly anything less turns to a 'ghost'.

    If they close ALL browser sessions it closes connection.

    This is really frustrating, I can't believe there is no fix for this....

    I'd be very interested in hearing what Adobe has to say about this issue.

    Or anyone else that might be able to help me fix this.

    Thanks

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    dsdsdsdsd
    Inspiring
    August 13, 2007
    David, I have a problem similar to this; did you find a solution?

    thanks
    dsdsdsdsd
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    Anonymous
    August 13, 2007
    we had the same problem and this is a bug for IE 6....

    try with the onunload event in your html to clear out your flash object. I doesn't work all the time but it can reduce the number of time that it happen. From server-side, try to clear user information (NetStream, Shared Object) when a user don't respond...

    There is no real 100% fully functional solution.
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