You can also use the HTTPService and integrate with JAAS pretty easily.
We do this in the Meldware Flex based email client. Here are a few code
snippets:
>From Services.mxml:
<mx:HTTPService id="loginService"
url="j_security_check"
showBusyCursor="true"
useProxy="false"/>
>From LoginDelegate.as:
public function login(user:UserVO):void
{
var params:Object = new Object();
params.j_username = user.username;
params.j_password = user.password;
var call:AsyncToken = service.send(params);
call.addResponder(responder);
}
Hope that helps.
-James
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 04:41 -0700, Jon Bradley wrote:
> On the same line of thought, since HTTPRequest seems to be one of the
> answers to my problem, has anyone tried to perform user
> authentication through that?
>
> The system we're developing uses servlets for all communication - but
> it creates these dynamically as we define pages that contain
> 'portals' (every page is a dynamically created JSP page basically) in
> the backend system.
>
> Am I correct to assume that if I can do a form post in an XHTML page,
> I can convert that post to the HTTPRequest in Flex?
>
> thanks all!
>
> jon
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