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A small trick when developing flex code that talks to hosting server

I often develop my flex code on a machine that is not running a web server. So I have to hardcode the IP of a working server when I need to pull data from the hosting server.

This can be a pain because before you checkin the code you have to remember to change the method of pulling the IP address.

So here is my solution

   var domain:String=mx.utils.URLUtil.getServerName(url);
  var port_nbr:int=mx.utils.URLUtil.getPort(url);
 if (flash.system.Security.sandboxType == "localTrusted")
  {
    Alert.show("In Development mode:"+domain+","+port);
    webService.wsdl="http://10.0.0.60:3000/services/wsdl";
  }
  else
  {
     webService.wsdl="http://"+domain+":"+port+"/services/wsdl";
  }

Obviously this is for web services but this technique can be used for sockets as well.

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