Memory leak in httpservice or urlrequest in Adobe AIR

Hello,

I am having troubles with some major memory leaks in an AIR application i wrote. The application is doing several hundreds of http requests using the httpservice component and based on the profiler (and my task manager memory monitor) I can tell that the memory keeps growing and there is a clear correlation between the size of the response and the amount of memory being leaked...

It is important to note that if i have multiple calls to the same page, the memory does not grow so it sounds almost like there is some kind of an hidden caching mechanism or something.

I tried using URLRequest but got almost the same result.

Please take a look at the code and let me know if you can help.

Thanks,
KG

<mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" applicationComplete="init()">
	<mx:Script>
		<![CDATA[
			import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
			import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService;
			import flash.utils.setTimeout;
			public function init():void {
				setTimeout(call, 3000);
			}
			
			private var pages:Array = new Array("http://www.experts-exchange.com", "http://www.adobe.com", "http://www.cnn.com", "http://www.bbc.co.uk", "http://www.cnet.com", "http://www.google.com", "http://www.msn.com", "http://www.yahoo.com", "http://www.yahoo.co.uk", "http://www.msnbc.com");
 
			private var request:HTTPService
			private var counter:int = 0;
			
			public function call():void {
				request = new HTTPService();
				request.method = "GET";
				request.useProxy = false;
				request.headers = {"User-Agent":"-", Referer:"-"}
				request.resultFormat = "text";
 
				request.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT, done);
	
				request.url = pages[counter];
				request.send();
				
			}
 
			public function done(_event:Event):void {
				request.disconnect();
				request = null;
 
				// calling the garbage collector 
				try
				{
				      var lc1:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
				      var lc2:LocalConnection = new LocalConnection();
				
				      lc1.connect( "gcConnection" );
				      lc2.connect( "gcConnection" );
				}
				catch (e:Error) {}			
 
				counter += 1;
 
				if (counter >= 10) return;
				
				init();
			}
		]]>
	</mx:Script>
</mx:WindowedApplication>

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