Ask an FMS Guru #25: How do you detect when a user loses connection to the media server via network connection loss?

This question actually comes up quite often on mailing lists and forums. I thought I had addressed it in the past here but it seems I didn't. Perhaps at a seminar or something...

anyways,

The question: How do you detect when a user loses connection to the media server via network connection loss?

The answer:

Lucky for this person there just so happens to be a new thread started up on flashcomguru.com's site.

Thread is here (detecting ungraceful disconnects)

Making a long story short for this blog entry, because the answer is in the post on the forum, FCS and FMS have had this problem since it first came out and hasn't quite been addressed in any updates. There supposedly were some improvements made in that area in the latest update but I've never tested because I have found that the workaround code (there are a few out there) works just as well.

Here is another post on the forum too just in case. It's a bit of an older one and covers more on keeping a client alive when they go idle or for some reason get disconnected for no particular reason. In a way, they both are the same type of problem.

Posted by Graeme at June 23, 2007 03:58 AM