Agreed, but one caution: Implementing things from scratch on top of flash.net.Socket may be an option for some limited use cases, but without the direct browser integration it doesn't make for a great general solution (in the case of WebDAV, or for general HTTP)
You lose integrated auth (NTLM for instance), security (SSL/certificate truststore and UI to manage it), state (cookies - whether you love them or hate them), etc. that the Player gets for free when it uses the browser's HTTP stack. This stuff turns out to be pretty valuable in practice. Best, Seth From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen More Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:15 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] WebDAV and Flex - Any sample code or opensource widgets available . . ? How exactly do you envision WebDAV being used with flash ? Couldn't one use flash.net.Socket to connect to port 80 and communicate using the WebDAV protocol ? On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Seth Hodgson <shodg.....> wrote: > Unfortunately, the Player currently limits the set of allowed HTTP methods > to just GET and POST. > > This means that PUT, DELETE, HEAD, etc. as well as all the WebDAV extension > methods are not allowed. > > Anyone who cares about this area should vote for this bug: > https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-12200 > And perhaps add a new bug specifically regarding WebDAV, although support > for that would definitely be lower priority. > > As a workaround for core HTTP methods, you could use the proxy service in > BlazeDS or LCDS which does supports all the core methods (mod PUT apparently > - not sure why that one's not included, possibly a doc error). We use > HTTPClient internally in the proxy service, and this library doesn't support > WebDAV extension methods so you'd still be out of luck with WebDAV > integration there as well. > > Best, > Seth > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of marty_martian > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:35 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] WebDAV and Flex - Any sample code or opensource > widgets available . . ? > > I have searched through the archives for this user group but see very > little discussion on WebDAV with Flex. It looks like some folks have > been trying to do it as far back as 2006 but no samples or pointers to > samples or open source widgets have been posted. > > Related to this, can anyone share: > > - samples > - pointers to samples > - open source widgets > > Most Grateful, > > Christopher >
