So sorry for not responding earlier I have been having
authentication header problems for a while and I think there is an
issue with flash player and maybe even Air.
I find that if you create an Air app in Flex builder you can
then try it out using the same code, but it doesn't always work. I
have found that some headers work in Air and don't in Web so flash
player being the problem.
However here is a solution I came to to handle the Basic
authentication header.
<mx:Model id="tmpData">
<postData>
<slickname>
If it works
</slickname>
</postData>
</mx:Model>
feedRequest = new HTTPService();
feedRequest.url = theURL;
feedRequest.method = "post";
feedRequest.contentType = "application/xml";
feedRequest.addEventListener(FaultEvent.FAULT, errorRead);
feedRequest.addEventListener(ResultEvent.RESULT,
showResult);
var encoder:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
encoder.encode(userID + ":" + passWord);
feedRequest.headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " +
encoder.toString();
feedRequest.send(tmpData);
So in brief, setup a model with just anything in it, set the
request to post not GET... set the content type and then did the
send with the dummy data.
This actually set the header and returned the data as
required. Weird thing is that if I did a get no header set, if I
did a post without sending any data no header set. also if I didn't
set the contentType although that might be my application specific,
no header set.
Hope this helps.
