HTTP Basic Authentication with HTTPService Objects in Adobe Flex/AIR

Question

I\'m trying to request a HTTP resource that requires basic authorization headers from within an Adobe AIR application. I\'ve tried manually adding the headers to the request

Answer 1

The setCredentials() & setRemoteCredentials() methods are intended for use with Flex/LiveCycle Data Services, so they probably don't apply in your case.

This ought to work for you. I was able to reproduce this behavior on my server, and this fix seems to have done the trick; it still seems a bit odd this isn't more API-user-friendly, considering how common a use case you'd think it were, but nonetheless, I've tested and verified this works, given a valid SSL cert:

private function authAndSend(service:HTTPService):void
{
        var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
        encoder.encode("someusername:somepassword");

        service.headers = {Authorization:"Basic " + encoder.toString()};                            
        service.send();
}

Hope it helps! And thanks for posting -- I'm sure I would've run into this one sooner or later myself. ;)