Sending Authentication Headers in Flex

Here’s a few useful posts concerning Authentication of HTTP requests.

In Flex (with HTTP Service class): http://www.geekzguru.net/howto-add-basic-authentication-header-to-httpservice/

In Flex (with URLLoader class): http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/flash_and_actionscript/
http_authentica.php

and in general, using Flash to interface with RESTful APIs: http://dynamicflash.com/2008/11/
the-trouble-with-flash-and-rest/comment-page-1/

All very interesting to me currently – sometime I’ll get down to writing a bit more about what I’m doing…

About James

James is a Senior New Media Developer at MMT Digital, and has BA(Hons) in Design for Interactive Media from the University of Gloucestershire. He loves designing and producing all sorts of website and Flash-related things, as well as prattling on about technologies.Day-to-day he works with Flash, Dreamweaver, Director, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and in his spare time he mucks about in Flex and Wordpress.Follow James on Twitter.

One Response to “Sending Authentication Headers in Flex”

  1. mayank 10th February, 2009 at 12:28 pm # Reply

    Hi, I’ve migrated my blog geekzguru.wordpress.com to http://www.geekzguru.net. Can you please change the link in this post to “http://www.geekzguru.net/howto-add-basic-authentication-header-to-httpservice/” instead?
    thnx,
    mayank

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