Gunnar, although I've not tried this yet, I think that you may be able to pre-authenticate with BASIC auth if you set the "Authorization" header on HTTPService. I recently discovered that the "Authorization" header is not one of the request headers disallowed by flash.net.URLRequest (which is ultimately used by by HTTPService to prepare a request to send over HTTP) so this approach should be technically possible. Note that you will need to Base64 encode the credentials from the String "username:password" into an encoded form. myHTTPService.headers.Authorization = "Basic " + base64EncodedCredentials;
Note that there is an undocumented mx.utils.Base64Encoder class in Flex that we plan to formally document in Flex 3.0. Pete ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunnar André Reinseth Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex 3 Beta is now available! Hi, This new release Flex is really great! The new AdvancedDataGrid has probably saved us months of work :) But there is one thing I'm wondering about: Has there been any changes to HTTPService? Does it support BASIC authentication? If not - is this an issue that the Flex team will address in the future? Best, Gunnar A. Reinseth On 6/11/07, Tom Chiverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: On Monday 11 Jun 2007, Matt Chotin wrote: > Charts and ADG only ship in FB for now, we're not building a separate > charting installer. I'm not bothered about an installer, I just didn't want to have to download all of FlexBuilder to get at one SWC inside it. On first tests, it seems Flex3 runs existing code fine (apart from the known Caringorm issue) which is good news, and my pet charting bug has even been addressed. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to autoschediastically seize best-of-breed interfaces on: http://thefalken.livejournal.com <http://thefalken.livejournal.com> **************************************************** This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP. Halliwells LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales under registered number OC307980 whose registered office address is at St James's Court Brown Street Manchester M2 2JF. A list of members is available for inspection at the registered office. Any reference to a partner in relation to Halliwells LLP means a member of Halliwells LLP. Regulated by the Law Society. CONFIDENTIALITY This email is intended only for the use of the addressee named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in nor copy it nor inform any person other than Halliwells LLP or the addressee of its existence or contents. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify Halliwells LLP IT Department on 0870 365 8008. For more information about Halliwells LLP visit www.halliwells.com <http://www.halliwells.com> . -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt> Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com <http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> Yahoo! Groups Links
