On Mar 27, 2015 9:01 PM, "kevin.godell" <kevin.god...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I duplicated your situation with basic authentication and had the same
> trouble of not being able to include the Authentication header using
> urlstream.
> Using Socket will allow you to authenticate and access the protected file,
> but is a bit trickier.
Yes, I think this is best approach. And is essentially what the
as3httpclient lib lets us do.
Thanks,
Om
>
> private var socket:Socket;
>
> private function connectSocket():void
> {
> if (!socket)
> socket = new Socket;
> socket.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT,
> socket_connectHandler);//socket successfully connected
> socket.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
> socket_IOErrorHandler);//socket failed to connect
> socket.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.SOCKET_DATA,
> socket_dataHandler);//received data from socket
> socket.addEventListener(Event.CLOSE, onSocketClose);//socket
closed by
> server
> }
> socket.connect("website.com", 80);
> }
>
> private function socket_connectHandler(event:Event):void
> {
> var b64:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder;
> b64.encode("user1:user1Password");
> var httpRequest:String = "GET /protected/testfile.txt
> HTTP/1.1\r\n";//might try 1.0 depending on situation
> httpRequest += "Authorization: Basic " + b64.toString() + "\r\n\r\n";
> socket.writeUTFBytes(httpRequest);
> sock.flush();
> }
>
> private function socket_dataHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void
> {
> //the tricky part, figuring out what to do with the raw data
> trace(socket.readUTFBytes(event.bytesLoaded));
> }
>
>
>
>
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