How to catch an elusive loader error in AS3 - actionscript-3

Question

I'm trying to get some data from a php script using a loader and VARIABLES data format. Here's the code I have:
myUrlResults = new URLRequest("http://[...]/getData.php");
myUrlResults.method = URLRequestMethod.GET;
myResultsLoader = new URLLoader();
myResultsLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLES;
myResultsLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, sendEventCompleteHandler);
myResultsLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, sendEventErrorHandler);
myResultsLoader.load(myUrlResults);
And
function sendEventCompleteHandler(e:Event) {
trace('Ok.');
}
function sendEventErrorHandler(e:IOErrorEvent) {
trace('Error occured:' + e);
}
As you know, Flash gives you a nasty error if the php file is not formatted properly.
But my .php file returns something like this var1=5&var2=10 and everything works great. However, sometimes, the server has issues and returns "Too many connections." which is something Flash doesn't like, because it's not a variable - value pair and I get an error like this:
Error: Error #2101: The String passed to URLVariables.decode() must be a URL-encoded query string containing name/value pairs.
at Error$/throwError()
at flash.net::URLVariables/decode()
at flash.net::URLVariables$iinit()
at flash.net::URLLoader/flash.net:URLLoader::onComplete()
How to catch this error??

Answer 1

try set
myResultsLoader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
and in your complete handler get the variables yourself after verify the result.
You can use a URLVariable.decode() and try/catch it there.