This is a restriction of the native http client within AFP stack (Flash Player and AIR). It only supports POST and GET.
The work-around is to use a 3rd party HTTP client within your app. Essentially, a client that builds its own HTTP header and then passes it along. There are quite a few libraries out there that can do this -- none that I'd recommend one over the other. -Nick On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > Hi, > > > I am currently working on a fun project in which we are having a little > battle of the client technologies. The backend server is a REST service > communicating in JSON. > > While my Flex client is currently way beyond the others, I just stumbled > over a problem which I don't quite know how to work around. > > > The problem is that the REST service accepts GET, PUT, DELETE and POST > requests. I was pretty surprised to find out the Flex doesn't seem to > support PUT and DELETE. The reasoning behind this seems to be related with > Browsers not supporting these. Is this still the case? I think a lot of the > modern JSFrameworks make heavy usage of REST services. Anyway I am creating > an AIR application, so I don't care about browsers anyway. > > > Is there a way around this to make REST PUT and DELETE calls possible? I > have tried the URLRequest approach, but this doesn't seem to work. > > > Is this a restriction from the dark ages and we could make Flex work with > PUT and DELETE or is this a restriction of the Flashplayer or AIR runtime? > > > Chris >
