I wonder whether anyone reading this has tried such an approach and would be willing to comment on the experience (stability, maintainability , testability, etc) of such an approach.
It also crossed our mind, but it seemed such a long road and it becomes really tricky if you want to read binary data from the server (as far as I remember the capabilities of the externalinterace) Thanks Peter On 25 Aug 2011, at 08:40, Peeyush Tuli wrote: > you can also use extrenalinterface to issue such requests through ajax.. > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:05 AM, handitan <handi....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the insightful info Peter! > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Peter Coppens <pc.subscriptions@...> wrote: > > > > Fwiw... > > > > As far as I know that is indeed still the case. The doc > > (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/mx/rpc/http/mxml/HTTPService.html) > > says > > > > You use the <mx:HTTPService> tag to represent an HTTPService object in an > > MXML file. When you call the HTTPService object's send() method, it makes > > an HTTP request to the specified URL, and an HTTP response is returned. > > Optionally, you can pass parameters to the specified URL. When you do not > > go through the server-based proxy service, you can use only HTTP GET or > > POST methods. However, when you set the useProxy property to true and you > > use the server-based proxy service, you can also use the HTTP HEAD, > > OPTIONS, TRACE, and DELETE methods. > > > > In general, unless you can get somewhere some server/proxy control, I have > > found Flex not very useful to talk to a REST like service. Some people have > > reported success by using http://code.google.com/p/as3httpclientlib/ iso > > the Flex provided stuff. Personally I have not tried that. As far as I > > remember it gets tricky as you cannot typically reuse browser managed http > > "resources" (cookies, cache, ...). > > > > As it might be of interest to you as well.....besides the limited HTTP verb > > support I have lost numerous hours getting HTTP headers across. That is > > also a non trivial endeavor. > > > > What eventually worked out best in my case is to just bite the bullet , > > shove a "proxy" in between, and use GET and POST to communicate tunneled > > "real" HTTP requests, that are then transformed and forwarded. That is > > still not perfect if you care about caching and have a need for custom > > headers, but at least most of it is working. > > > > I have always found it a bit ironic that a platform that started it's life > > as a toolset to develop Rich Internet Applications has such limited support > > for "the" internet standard as old as HTTP. > > > > Anyway, hth, > > > > Peter > > > > > > On 20 Aug 2011, at 00:43, handitan wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just would like to get a confirmation. > > > Right now, I have to use 3rd party REST APIs in our Flex app. > > > A bunch of the REST APIs are using DELETE and PUT method. > > > > > > As the title said, they got changed automatically to GET. > > > And from what I gather from this forum somebody said this in 2008: > > > "It's a limitation of the browser plugin API unfortunately." > > > > > > Is this still true in Flash Player 10.3? > > > My app is still Flex 3 app with 3.5 SDK. > > > > > > I appreciate any input. > > > > > > Handi > > > > > > @Alex: > > > Yes..yes..I am still using Flex 3. > > > > > > > > > > > > >
