Comments on: HTTP Authentication for HTTP/GET requests using ActionScript 3

By: suprasannachoudhury

suprasannachoudhury — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:35:53 +0000

I have always used 'xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” ' instead of

'xmlns:mx=”http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml”' .And the later one doesnt produce a result also.. can you suggest ..
And one more thing is , i 'm not able to ship a weather webservice out side flex builder .Its giving 'security error accessing url' . Even i ahve added crossdomain policy file also

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:57:26 +0000

Hi Ravi

As far as I know, Flash Player 10 allows local file access (read-only). You can prompt user to browse a file and content of that can be read in actionscript. I don't think, you can write to client machine without using any signed-code (applet, activex, javascript, etc).

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:57:26 +0000

Hi Ravi

By: Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:35:53 +0000

Hi,

Excellent, I am new to FLEX n I am doing a project while learning. This example was really helped me as my situation required this solution.

I need to access local filesystem using FLEX web application, could you help me out to solve this problem or any alternative solution will be appreciated. As I know FLEX (WEB) should not support filesystem access.

Thanks a lot,
Ravi Shankar

By: venkatn

venkatn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:24:10 +0000

i am trying to upload files using fielreference.upload(). how do i use basic authentication using as3 script i dont find Base64 in as3 api.

i have gone through the livedocs help . its mentioned that with filereference , urlrequestheader does not work . is that true.

i cant use u r example because i dont find api classes.

abdul please help me

By: marc

marc — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:04:40 +0000

nice work…. very useful….

By: ab

ab — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:11:59 +0000

I need the code for HTTP POST and GET. i basically what to send a url to server and check the status,display the response by server…..and calculate the time taken to get the response.
I am using cs4/actionscript 2.0

can you help me……

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:41:40 +0000

@zeeshan: Did you try adding it to headers object? What error you get? I know, Flash Player doesn’t let you add/override many http-headers. As far as I know, none of headers (user_agent, user_agent_id) is standard http header, hence it should work.

Please note, user-agent is a standard http header, if you are using user-agent, you might not be able to do that. Kindly check the list of http headers Flash Player doesn’t let developers override.

-abdul

By: zeeshan

zeeshan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:10:25 +0000

Hi Abdul,

is it possible to add a custom header user_agent in httpservice?
i had API.as class which requires a post method with custom header user_agent and user_agetn_id. i can add user_agent_id but i got ArgumentError on user_agent.
can u please advise any solution?

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:01:56 +0000

@David
I guess, it’s part of as3corelib (http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/)
Thanks
-abdul

By: David W

David W — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:15 +0000

Abdul:
The as3httpclientlib requires com.adobe.net.URI, but, this is not documented as to where to obtain this library. It’s not in Flex, it’s not AIR only?
Seems this would be noted somewhere on the examples/docs, as the package seems unusable without this code.
Thanks.

By: Abdul Qabiz

Abdul Qabiz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:27:57 +0000

Hi Guys
This code was written long time back, things have changed a lot in Flash Player after that. Some of the headers were not allowed in some intermediate player releases, it seems Flash Player 10 has got those fixes.
However, I am not still not sure one can do HTTP Auth over HTTP/GET in Flash Player 10.
There is better library available now at http://code.google.com/p/as3httpclientlib, you might want to use it instead.
I have stopped updating this code, after I noticed as3httpclientlib is good stuff.
Sorry for delays in my reply, been stuck and shame on me, couldn’t be of any help when you needed.
Thanks
-abdul

By: Andy Haugh

Andy Haugh — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:01:47 +0000

Thank you for writing this very useful code, Abdul!

By: SiggeLund, Sweden

SiggeLund, Sweden — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:15:21 +0000

Hey,
I did a modification on your class to get Basic Authentication working.
The command request.requestHeaders.push(authHeader) causes an Error since it is not allowed to set the keyword Authorization any more.
The solution I used was to let the constructor recieve a URLRequest object the same way as before, but the load method now recieves an Array of Strings instead. Each string in the format HeaderName:HeaderValue.
I then adjusted your sendHeaders method to fetch the headers from the array instead. Worked fine, even with Authorize.
If you wanna talk about it, drop me an email.

By: Mahmoud Khaled

Mahmoud Khaled — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:16:31 +0000

Hi cody,
I have tried using ordinary serv.headers['Authorization'], but It didn’t work with me when method is “GET” !!
Can you send the full httpservice code you made ?
Thanks in advance