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

I had the same problem while consuming HTTP Basic Authenticated Webservice. This is my solution; it works fine:

private function authAndSend(service:WebService):void
{
    var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
        encoder.insertNewLines = false; 
        encoder.encode("user:password");
    service.httpHeaders = { Authorization:"Basic " + encoder.ToString() };
    service.initialize();
}

usage

authAndSend(WebService( aWebServiceWrapper.serviceControl));