See: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security.html
For POST requests, the confusion probably arises because it was possible to send Authorization headers in the past, but it was added to the list of restricted headers (I don't have the exact version handy, but it might have been 9.0.124). Even though the crossdomain policy format was expanded to include an allowed header list, I believe the restricted headers are still always ignored. See http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/net/URLRequestHeader.html for a list of restricted headers. For GET requests, headers not being sent is a different issue logged against URLLoader - I believe this is due to a limitation of the plugin APIs exposed to the player. There are several duplicates logged, but one is: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-209. Pete -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stevepruitt97 Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:31 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] HttpService headers - age old problem This seems to be an age-old issue. I need to set the Authorization header for GET requests. I read it cannot be done and I have read articles that hint it is doable. Which is it? I have no cross-domain issues. Everything is sent to the same server. I found the following adobe TechNote: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do? externalId=kb403184&sliceId=1 appears to state that post Flash player 9.0.115.0 the Authorization header can be sent with either GET or POST. I have player 9.0.224.0. However, I cannot the Authorization header or a custom header to go across. Has anyone successfully set the Authorization header for any customer header for that matter with the HttpService? Thanks. -S ------------------------------------ -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Alternative FAQ location: https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links
