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

Also, just so other people don't spend 10 minutes working out why the correct example doesn't quite work asis, you need to import the mx.utils.Base64Encoder package eg:

        import mx.utils.Base64Encoder;

At the beginning or somewhere within the CDATA area. I'm new to flex so this wasn't quite obvious at first.