I believe the only solution to authenticate without a login page is to
configure TomCat to use Basic Auth and you will get the standard
browser user/pass popup whenever accessing the secure realm.
--- In [email protected], "e_baggg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to authenticate against a Java-based application server
> (Tomcat) from my Flex app. I'm unable to set the HTTP "Authorization"
> header to pass to the server to authenticate. I'm also not able to
> read the cookie header that the server sends back after successful
> authentication. Authenticating to the server with an HTML login page
> prior to getting to the Flex app is not an option. How have you
> solved authentication from Flex?
>
