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

This is how its done.

import mx.utils.Base64Encoder;
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
import mx.rpc.http.HTTPService;

var _oHttp:HTTPService = new HTTPService;
var sUsername:String = "theusername"
var sPassword:String = "thepassword";

var oEncoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder(); 
oEncoder.insertNewLines = false; 
oEncoder.encode(sUsername + ":" + sPassword); 

_oHttp.method = "POST";
_oHttp.headers = {Authorization:"Basic " + oEncoder.toString()};