Looking over your code. I wanna attempt to reproduce it. What is the type for
remoteURLStreamer?
Chris
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:45:43 +0530
> Subject: Re: HTTP Basic Authentication for URLRequest
> From: megharajdee...@gmail.com
> To: users@flex.apache.org
>
> Sorry, was away for sometime.
>
> I ran it through network monitor in FB.
> Screenshot: http://pasteboard.co/25kUwXgR.png
>
> Looks like header is not passed at all.
>
> Code:
> var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(pathRemote);
> req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
> req.data = new URLVariables("name=John+Doe");
>
> var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
> encoder.insertNewLines = true;
> encoder.encode("myusername:mypassword");
>
>
> var credsHeader:URLRequestHeader = new
> URLRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoder.toString());
> req.requestHeaders.push(credsHeader);
> remoteURLStreamer.load(req);
>
>
> I looked at the doc:
> http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/URLRequestHeader.html
>
> It says:
> "In Flash Player and in Adobe AIR content outside of the application
> security sandbox, the following request headers cannot be used
> Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Ranges, Age, Allow, Allowed,
> Authorization, Charge-To, Connect, Connection, Content-Length,
> Content-Location, Content-Range, Cookie, Date, Delete, ETag, Expect, Get,
> Head, Host, If-Modified-Since, Keep-Alive, Last-Modified, Location,
> Max-Forwards, Options, Origin, Post, Proxy-Authenticate, Proxy-Authorization,
> Proxy-Connection, Public, Put, Range, Referer, Request-Range, Retry-After,
> Server, TE, Trace, Trailer, Transfer-Encoding, Upgrade, URI, User-Agent,
> Vary, Via, Warning, WWW-Authenticate, x-flash-version."
>
> Why does header request cannot have 'Authorization' object? So how else can
> we pass the header request?
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Chris Martin <chrsm...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, a network packet log would be a huge help. Then you can rule out
> > whether or not the Authorization header is present in your request or not.
> > I use fiddler[1] all the time. Also it makes it easy to detect if
> > something else went wrong at the server side like your authentication
> > request failed with a 403 Forbidden response.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.telerik.com/fiddler
> >
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > Sent from Windows Mail
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Tom Chiverton
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 2:24 AM
> > To: users@flex.apache.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Do you have a network packet log ?
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On 24/03/15 04:25, Deepak MS wrote:
> > > Any help on this please? I still haven't found any solution for this. I
> > > keep getting username\password prompt on the simulator. ;(
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Deepak MS <megharajdee...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >> I'm trying to download a file from the server which requires basic
> > >> authentication(need to enter user name and password to access).
> > >>
> > >> I came across these links:
> > >>
> > >>
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/509219/flex-3-how-to-support-http-authentication-urlrequest
> > >>
> > >>
> > http://johncblandii.com/2011/07/flex-quick-tip-urlrequest-basic-auth.html
> > >>
> > >> http://blog.derraab.com/2010/02/25/urlrequest-with-http-authentication/
> > >>
> > >> Tried all of it. I either get IO error or I get windows authentication
> > >> popup window when I run the mobile app on my desktop.
> > >>
> > >> None of it seem to work. I'm using Flex4.14\AIR16.
> > >>
> > >> Screenshot:
> > >> http://pbrd.co/18wmsZK
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Code that I have been trying:
> > >>
> > >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > >> <s:View xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009";
> > >> xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" title="Contact" >
> > >> <s:layout>
> > >> <s:VerticalLayout/>
> > >> </s:layout>
> > >> <fx:Script>
> > >> <![CDATA[
> > >> import mx.events.FlexEvent;
> > >> import mx.utils.Base64Encoder;
> > >>
> > >> private var remoteURLStreamer:URLStream= new URLStream();
> > >>
> > >> private var pathRemote:String = '
> > >> http://myserver.com/datafiles/myfile.zip';
> > >>
> > >> private function startRemoteFileDownload():void
> > >> {
> > >> URLRequestDefaults.setLoginCredentialsForHost('
> > >> www.myserver.com','myusername','mypassword'); // not working
> > >>
> > remoteURLStreamer.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS,
> > >> remoteURLStreamerProgressHandler);
> > >>
> > remoteURLStreamer.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR,
> > >> remoteURLStreamerIOErrorHandler);
> > >>
> > >> remoteURLStreamer.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR,
> > >> remoteURLStreamerSecurityErrorHandler);
> > >>
> > >> var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(pathRemote);
> > >>
> > >> req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
> > >>
> > >> req.data = new URLVariables("name=John+Doe"); //(one
> > post
> > >> suggests to pass dummy parameters to data) not working
> > >>
> > >> var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
> > >> encoder.insertNewLines = true;
> > >> encoder.encode("myusername:mypassword");
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> var credsHeader:URLRequestHeader = new
> > >> URLRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoder.toString()); //not
> > >> working
> > >> req.requestHeaders.push(credsHeader);
> > >> remoteURLStreamer.load(req);
> > >>
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> private function
> > >> remoteURLStreamerProgressHandler(event:ProgressEvent):void
> > >> {
> > >>
> > >> switch (event.type)
> > >> {
> > >> case "progress":
> > >> lb.text = event.bytesLoaded.toString();
> > >> break;
> > >> }
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> private function
> > >> remoteURLStreamerIOErrorHandler(event:IOErrorEvent):void
> > >> {
> > >> lb.text = 'IOError';
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> private function
> > >> remoteURLStreamerSecurityErrorHandler(event:SecurityErrorEvent):void
> > >> {
> > >> lb.text = 'SecurityError';
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> protected function
> > button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
> > >> {
> > >> startRemoteFileDownload();
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> ]]>
> > >> </fx:Script>
> > >>
> > >> <s:Button label="hello" click="button1_clickHandler(event)"/>
> > >> <s:Label id="lb" text="Hello"/>
> > >> </s:View>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Can you kindly let me know if there is something going wrong here? Or is
> > >> there any other way to make it work?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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