I believe Socket based HTTP Clients can do this. There’s a couple out there. [1][2].
The author of the first seems to recommend the second.[3] [1]https://code.google.com/p/as3httpclient/ [2] https://github.com/gabriel/as3httpclient [3]http://www.abdulqabiz.com/blog/archives/2008/01/21/as3httpclientlib-a-better-http-client-in-actionscript-by-gabe/ On Sep 7, 2015, at 3:56 PM, 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
