Of course HTTPService uses URLLoader when you are using a direct connection to your server. HTTPService supports resultFormats, data binding, proxying with blazeDS, channel set failover, MXML tag definition, and AsyncToken's for more flexible code notification. URLLoader is well covered in the flash documentation but there's no reason you can't use it for Flex too.
Jeff From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Osman Ullah Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:57 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] HTTPService vs URLRequest Surprisingly, I am having a very difficult time finding any discussion on the advantages of using HTTPService instead of URLRequest. I've always used URLRequest to handle my web API calls. What are some of the benefits of using the HTTPService instead? I like URLLoader because my network libraries aren't dependant on flex, but I don't quite understand why Adobe makes very little mention of URLLoader in their Flex documentation, and also doesn't have any articles comparing HTTPService to URLLoader.
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