[maybe Solved] Flash socket in IE7 can only receive the first message

[tytsim]

Flash socket in IE7 can only receive the first message.
After a short period of time, it will be disconnected without receive more or send any message from or towards Socket.IO-node server. I've just try it for the example of socket.io git project.

Result : ignore IE7 and encourage users upgrade to IE8 or higher.

[tytsim]

htmlfile is not work on IE7 too and I've found that I cannot force the transport to xhr so none of successful can be done by Socket.io. I am trapping on IEs.

[saschagehlich]

Is there any transport that works fine on IE7/IE8 right now?

[tytsim]

IE8 send a { "$error": "Invalid message" } message towards server when using Flash socket, while htmlfile works after updating to IE8.

[tytsim]

Problem seems to be solved by including JSON.js in flashsocket in on IE8.
It seems well by ignoring IE7 below. Thanks for attentions.
However, I'd like to ask if someone can tell me how to force the connection type.
I've tried passing {transports:['htmlfile']} and just ['htmlfile'] in listen method.

[saschagehlich]

In a huge project you can't tell people to upgrade their browsers to use the website - isn't there another solution? JSON.js is always included on my website.

[rauchg]

I think you were just forgetting to include json2.js