Well, we would actually probably just whitelist all headers.

Cheers,
-Jeff

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Michal Gron <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, true, but without correct crossdomain.xml file it's not possible
> - Flash Player throws Security sandbox violation error.
> I think something like this could be helpful:
> <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" secure="false" headers="
> Authorization,X-Method-Override" />
>
> Michal
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> So noted. Might want to add your comments to the issue as well. Basically
>> you will be needing to use the X-Method-Override header to fake the POST
>> being a GET (basically you set the header to indicate what type of request
>> you WANT to make and the API will process it as that even though it received
>> it as something else.)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:22 AM, michal.gron <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> There is also a problem when accessing private entries from Flash
>>> Player authorized via AuthSub.
>>> Somehow you need to send the Authorization header from Flash Player
>>> (containing the AuthSub session token), and only possible way is to do
>>> it via POST request because Flash Player cannot send headers with GET
>>> request.
>>>
>>> And a POST request to PWA Data API meens creating something new, in
>>> this case (i think :) ) a new Album entry.
>>>
>>> It looks like, there is (yet) no way to read private PWA entries
>>> authorized via AuthSub because:
>>> 1. we need crossdomain.xml with <allow-http-request-headers-from
>>> domain="*" headers="Authorization"/>
>>> 2. we need to be able send POST requests to read the private entries
>>>
>>> Thanks for any informations/hints on this.
>>>
>>> Michal
>>>
>>>
>>> On 27. Mar., 20:56 h., Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Thanks for getting back to me...
>>> >
>>> > This has been filed,  If anyone else needs this, please star
>>> >
>>> > http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=1122
>>> >
>>> > Thanks.
>>> >
>>> > Lee
>>> >
>>> > Lee Evans
>>> > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>> >
>>> > From: [email protected] [mailto:
>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Fisher
>>> > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:03 PM
>>> > To: [email protected]
>>> > Subject: [PWA API] Re: Sending Authorization Header from Flash/AS3
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > Sounds reasonable. Please file a feature request:
>>> >
>>> > http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/entry
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > -Jeff
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Lee <[email protected]<mailto:
>>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I've been trying to authorize my Flash/AS3 Photo Viewer against Picasa
>>> > and I have no problems getting the Auth Token from ClientLogin
>>> athttps://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin
>>> >
>>> > However it seems that for me to send this auth token to
>>> > PicasaWebAlbums as part of an authorization header from AS3, thehttp://
>>> photos.googleapis.com/data/crossdomain.xmlfile at needs to
>>> > include...
>>> >
>>> > <allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="Authorization"/>
>>> >
>>> > (perhttp://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403184
>>> > )
>>> >
>>> > I have no idea what the implications are of Google making this change,
>>> > but has any one else requested this and is this something that could
>>> > possibly be done so that the Picasa web albums that require a
>>> > authorization header can be accessed directly from Flash?
>>> >
>>> > I'm aware that I could also use a proxy to relay the authorization
>>> > header, but I'd rather keep the extra hop to my server out of the loop
>>> > if possible.
>>> >
>>> > Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> > Lee Evans
>>> > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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