Re: [flexcoders] Partial result from HTTPService call

2008-04-06 Thread p_repetti
OK then, I rewrote it with URLLoader, avoiding the HTTPService.send() call, using an URLRequest instead: now all of the image bytes get to the client. Thanks to all who helped. P. Dmitri Girski wrote: Hi Pier, I said that I am not sure about getting binary data via HTTPService as I

Re: [flexcoders] Partial result from HTTPService call

2008-04-04 Thread p_repetti
Thanks for your note, Dmitri. I have thought about saving the jpg on the server then exposing it through an URL, but that results in a potential security breach in my system. If I generate the image on the fly and stream it to the client, I can control that the client has right credentials to

Re: [flexcoders] Partial result from HTTPService call

2008-04-03 Thread p_repetti
Thanks to everyone who replied, but nothing changed. It looks like the problem is in the result byte array, that is _before_ the loader actually gets in. Is my way of creating the ByteArray correct ? How can I inspect the length and contents of lastResult via the debugger ? Thanks Dave Cragg

[flexcoders] Partial result from HTTPService call

2008-04-02 Thread p_repetti
Hello I'm retrieving a JPEG from the server side to display it in an mx:Image. The image raw bytes are served by a plain Java Servlet. The content type is correct. If I call the servlet from a common browser it all works fine. The image is 400KB big. PROBLEM: when I call the servlet from Flex

RE: [flexcoders] Partial result from HTTPService call

2008-04-02 Thread Tracy Spratt
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Partial result from HTTPService call Hello I'm retrieving a JPEG from the server side to display it in an mx:Image. The image raw bytes are served by a plain Java Servlet. The content type is correct. If I call the servlet from a common browser

Re: [flexcoders] Partial result from HTTPService call

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Cragg
Isn't using URLLoader a better way to download binary data such as jpeg files? It has a dataFormat property that can be set to binary, which delivers the data as a byteArray. My understanding of httpService is that it will try to parse the result depending on the setting of the