Unfortunately, Flex does not support the ability to supply basic auth credentials from the client. I've been able to do this using the Socket class but it required manual parsing of the http result in its raw form...doable but not pretty.
Carson ____________________________________________ Carson Hager Cynergy Systems, Inc. http://www.cynergysystems.com <http://www.cynergysystems.com/> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 866-CYNERGY Mobile: 1.703.489.6466 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 2:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Basic Authorization in HTTPService without using Flex Data Services The following mxml file attempts to connect to BaseCamp to retrieve a list of Projects. The problem is how to specify the basic authorization. I notice that setCredentials() does not work with direct http connections (no proxying). Any other ideas? (The username and passwords are all valid - I created a new basecamp project for this testing). <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> "> <mx:VBox width="100%" height="100%" horizontalAlign="center" verticalAlign="middle"> <mx:Panel> <mx:Form> <!-- <mx:FormItem label="Username:"> <mx:TextInput id="txtUsername"/> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="Password:"> <mx:TextInput id="txtPassword" displayAsPassword="true"/> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="Path:"> <mx:TextInput id="txtPath"/> </mx:FormItem> --> <mx:FormItem> <mx:Button label="Login" click="getProjects()"/> </mx:FormItem> </mx:Form> <mx:TextArea width="100%" height="100" id="txtResults"/> </mx:Panel> </mx:VBox> <mx:HTTPService concurrency="single" contentType="application/xml" resultFormat="xml" makeObjectsBindable="true" id="feedRequest" url="http://flexexample.projectpath.com/project/list <http://flexexample.projectpath.com/project/list> " method="POST" useProxy="false" fault="handleFault(event)" result="handleResult(event)"> <mx:request> <request> </request> </mx:request> </mx:HTTPService> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent; import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent; public function getProjects() : void { // the username is flexexample // the password is flexexample feedRequest.headers = { Authorization: "Basic ZmxleGV4YW1wbGU6ZmxleGV4YW1wbGU=", Accept: "application/xml" }; feedRequest.send(); } public function handleFault(event:FaultEvent) : void { txtResults.text = "FAULT: " + event.toString(); } public function handleResult(event:ResultEvent) : void { txtResults.text = "RESULT: " + event.result.toString(); } ]]> </mx:Script> </mx:Application>
