How to handle HTTPStatus Response 201 with AS3 / Flash / SWFUpload

Question

Hey all.

I'm using SWFUpload on a Rails site to allow for MP3 Uploads direct to Sound Cloud. To avoid having to first upload a large file to my server and push to Sound Cloud, I'm hitting their API directly via SWFUpload, passing necessary OAuth token data.

Everything works - EXCEPT - Flash can't handle the HTTP response code that Sound Cloud's API returns (201). This ALWAYS triggers an unhandled IO Error with Flash. Even though SWFUpload allows me to override that in the JS, it breaks any response data (the URI to the uploaded file).

Does anyone know how I could somehow intercept the 201 code so that I can make it a 200 code for flash? I'm at a loss at how I can avoid this IO Error. I've tried try/catch statements around everything and have even recompiled SWFUpload to try new things to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

There's a good chance you're screwed - Flash is monumentally bad at talking to REST services.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, you're screwed. It's not possible to handle any response codes other than 200 in Flex. Anything else results in an error.