Trace your result: flexitXML = event.result as XML;
trace(flexitXML.toXMLString()); //This will show you your xml Also, you can try: flexitXML = XML(event.result); //the "as" should work though Also, hit the url from a browser, you should see valid xml. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of generalxxaxx Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Question about HTTPService and Perl I am trying to connect to a Perl script on my server. At the moment I'm mostly flopping around. Below are snippets of the code involved. I was hoping for hints on what bit of blatant stupidity I've overlooked. Or, perhaps a few best practices on how to debug returning information such as this. Or, perhaps pointers to a method for "looking" at the returned object to see what it is. Or, maybe everything is fine and it's a problem with how to properly access the data in the xml. Regards =============================================== I use the following for the HTTPService <mx:HTTPService id="srv" url="http://www.mydom.com/cgi-bin/script.pl <http://www.mydom.com/cgi-bin/script.pl> " useProxy="false" resultFormat="e4x" result="httppostResult(event);" method="POST"> <mx:request> <resource>{resourceParam}</resource> <resource2>{resourceParam2}</resource2> <resource3>{resourceParam3}</resource3> <resource4>{resourceParam4}</resource4> </mx:request> </mx:HTTPService> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ [Bindable] private var resourceParam:String = "uniits"; [Bindable] private var resourceParam2:String = "uniits2"; [Bindable] private var resourceParam3:String = "uniits3"; [Bindable] private var resourceParam4:String = "uniits4"; private var flexitXML:XML; private function httppostResult(event:ResultEvent):void { flexitXML = event.result as XML; // or flexitXML = new XML(event.result.toString()); resultsTextArea.text = flexitXML.toString(); resultsLabel.text = flexitXML.a.b.resource; } } ]]> </mx:Script> ================================ script.pl returns Content-type: text/xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <a> <b> <resource2>uniits2</resource2> <resource3>uniits3</resource3> <resource>uniits</resource> <resource4>uniits4</resource4> </b> </a> ================================ resultsTextArea.text = <a> <b> <resource2>uniits2</resource2> <resource3>uniits3</resource3> <resource>uniits</resource> <resource4>uniits4</resource4> </b> </a>
