[flexcoders] Flex 2, Webservice, Tomcat, Basic Authentication, IE Problem

Hi List, I implemented some Webservices on a tomcat J2EE webserver which are protected by basic authentication. To use the Webservices I implemented a Client in Flex which is embedded in a HTML page which only can be accessed by using the basic authentication. This means to reach the swf

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2, Webservice, Tomcat, Basic Authentication, IE Problem

kind of looks familiar...https issue. Total stab in the dark: try using http and let IE handle the redirect to https? Also note, in IE if a user is at a http site and navigates to a https site, a popup comes up warning the user of the change. If the user never checked the box to ignore this

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2, Webservice, Tomcat, Basic Authentication, IE Problem

Hi Douglas, thanks for your reply. I can switch off https for testing purposes, but it is impossible to switch off https in the production environment. So your approach can't be the final solution. I'll try to switch off https tomorrow and will see what happens. Any more ideas? Regards,

Re: [flexcoders] Flex 2, Webservice, Tomcat, Basic Authentication, IE Problem

I meant the url property in your WebService call, not the server. DK On Nov 14, 2007 3:40 PM, Christoph Guse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Douglas, thanks for your reply. I can switch off https for testing purposes, but it is impossible to switch off https in the production environment. So