Danny- Thanks. I just went ahead with the Socket implementation fix that Ted Patrick blogged about way back.
http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/flash_and_actionscript/http_authentica.php --- In [email protected], "Danny Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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" <e_baggg@> 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? > > >

