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Back from Vacation

Posted on Monday, January 04, 2010 by Ian Drake

I hope everyone had a great holiday, I sure did, but now it's back to work.  I have a couple outstanding questions and bug reports to follow up with and a few fixes to release this week.

Apple Bug

I was able to borrow an iBook (thanks Matt) to debug the issue NotifyWire has on Macs.  The fix will be included in this week’s release.  If you're a geek like me, read on...

First, let me say that I don't know my way around a Mac, so this was difficult for me, but I got the Adobe Air SDK on the machine and managed to get the ADL debugging my code.  In NotifyWire, I specify that gzip is an acceptable encoding type for network requests and if the server responds in gzip format, I used code I converted from actionscript to javascript to un-gzip the server response.  This works great on Windows.  It looks like the network stack works different on a Mac because even through the server's encoding type is gzip, the response is already un-gzipped by the time NotifyWire get's it.

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