How to access Flash Apps over https with a self signed certificate?

[Swami]

I have a Flex app that needs to access data from a SOAP web service over https with a self signed certificate. The app needs to ignore the https warnings, just as a browser would warn & allow the user to proceed. Buying a valid signed certificate is not an option for us.

It works fine over http.

How can I achieve this?

I read that URLRequest has a property: authenticate, that I can set to false. However, this property is available only for Adobe AIR applications from what I can see. This doesn't seem available for Flex apps.

I have tried this in both Flex 3 & the latest Flash Builder 4. Have the same issue in both cases.

Help appreciated.

Thanks

[C_F_McBlob]

You'd really need to ask in the Flex or Flash Builder forums as this is a front end code modification and Flash Player can't do any of that.

[Swami]

Will do. Thanks.