Thread: HTTP Basic Authentication from flash projector

Are you using AS2 or AS3? You NEED to add a header to the HTTP request to supply the username and password. It must be base64 encoded (for Basic Authentication). Check out http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/ , I think it has some HTTP stuff in there that will do the heavy lifting for you if you're using AS3.

Thanks for help and sorry for the late reply. i am using AS2. I am not very expert with actionscript, so trying the AS2 only for now. (AS3 may later). I tried the base64 encoding but am not sure how it works. When i tried it got an error sort of "Class used outside". I tried to find help for base64 encoding, but not lucky enough to get going. I am really stuck over this problem. If ...

You can find an ActionScript 2.0 base 64 encoder/decoder class here I did a couple of quick tests with LoadVars and it looks like the Authorization header gets stripped out (other headers seem to go through okay). So you might not be able to do this with Flash if your plan is to stick with AS2. You can do this with the HTTP plugin in SWF Studio (my product) but that would mean ...

Thanks a lot. I will try it out. Though not yet sure how much I might succeed with it.

If you have any questions about SWF Studio you can ask me here or at www.northcode.com/forums and I'll be happy to help you.