Error handling in Flash Remoting for AS 2.0

I have been migrating from AS1.0 to AS2.0, and have been having troubles 
with the new Flash Remoting. It seems to do a very poor job of error 
reporting ... even worse than the error reporting in the old AS1.0 
version of Flash Remoting. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any tricks 
on how to get notification if the remote server is down.

If the remote server is not reachable, I don't get any error at all. The 
RelayResponder never calls my error handler. I've started from the 
sample Remoting code, straight from the Macromedia docs. The source code 
is below. I did update the library to include the "RemotingClasses" 
component, and the code works when I am use a valid URL. But, if I stop 
my 'localhost' server, or use the Macromedia server (which is now 
defunct), the RelayResponder never calls my error handler.

Note that if the server is totally unreachable, I do see "Error opening 
URL..." in the trace window. If the server is reachable but returns 
HTML, like the Macromedia server is doing, I get nothing. Adding a 
logger is no help, as no log statements are generated when trying to 
connect to the unreachable server.

In AS1.0, I used to define _global.System.onStatus  and  
NetConnection.onStatus. One of them would get called if there was a 
basic connection error. Perhaps there is something similar for the new 
AS2.0 Flash Remoting?

I'd really love to get to the bottom of this. Thanks in advance for any 
clues - Todd


--------BEGIN AS CODE----
import mx.remoting.Service;
import mx.remoting.PendingCall;
import mx.rpc.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.RelayResponder;

mx.remoting.debug.NetDebug.initialize();

var url : String;

//url = "http://localhost:8080/InsightXP-r999/AdvancedGateway4";
url = "http://examples.macromedia.com/flashservices/gateway";

var myService:Service = new Service(
    url, null,"petmarket.api.catalogservice",  null, null); // connect 
to remote service

trace("Connecting ...");

var pc:PendingCall = myService.getCatagories({locale:"en_US"}); // call 
service method
pc.responder = new RelayResponder(this, "getData_Result", "getData_Fault");

function getData_Result( re:ResultEvent ):Void { // receive result
    trace( "getData_Result: got the response" );
}
function getData_Fault( fe:FaultEvent ):Void { // receive fault
    trace( "getData_Fault: "  + fe.fault.description);
}
--------END AS CODE----




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