RE: [flexcoders] HTTPService vs URLRequest

2009-03-05 Thread Jeff Vroom
Of course HTTPService uses URLLoader when you are using a direct connection to your server. HTTPService supports resultFormats, data binding, proxying with blazeDS, channel set failover, MXML tag definition, and AsyncToken's for more flexible code notification. URLLoader is well covered in

Re: [flexcoders] HTTPService vs URLRequest

2009-03-05 Thread Guy Morton
One good thing about URLLoader is that you can load binary data with it. HTTPService doesn't seem to allow this, though I could be wrong about that. On 06/03/2009, at 2:56 AM, Osman Ullah wrote: Surprisingly, I am having a very difficult time finding any discussion on the advantages of

RE: [flexcoders] HTTPService vs URLRequest

2009-03-05 Thread Ryan Graham
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] HTTPService vs URLRequest One good thing about URLLoader is that you can load binary data with it. HTTPService doesn't seem to allow this, though I could be wrong about that. On 06/03/2009, at 2:56 AM, Osman Ullah wrote: Surprisingly, I am having a very