What is the status of this?  I've submitted a request to join the test
group.  I hope this is something YouTube is aggressively researching,
and plans to implement are on the horizon.....???

On May 12, 12:06 pm, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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