urlrequest

How do I prevent Flash's URLRequest from escaping the url?

I load some XML from a servlet from my Flex application like this: _loader = new URLLoader(); _loader.load(new URLRequest(_servletURL+"?do=load&id="+_id)); As you can imagine _servletURL is something like http://foo.bar/path/to/servlet In some cases, this URL contains accented characters (long story). I pass the unescaped string to UR...

How to play a sound in Actionscript 3 that is not in the same directory as the SWF?

I have a project with a bunch of external sounds to a SWF. I want to play them, but any time I attempt load a new URL into the sound object it fails with either "Error #2068: Invalid Sound" or raises an ioError with "Error #2032 Stream Error". // Tried with path prefixed with "http://.." "file://.." "//.." and "..") var path:String = ...

When POSTing a form with URLRequest, how to include cookies from browser session?

(With reference to this answer:) When I POST with a URLRequest, does it automatically include cookies from the browser session in which Flash is hosted? If not, how can I make it include them, or if necessary retrieve them and include them myself? ...

Flex 3 - how to support HTTP Authentication URLRequest?

I have a Flex file upload script that uses URLRequest to upload files to a server. I want to add support for http authentication (password protected directories on the server), but I don't know how to implement this - I assume I need to extend the class somehow, but on how to I'm a little lost. I tried to modify the following (replacin...

How can I prompt a user to open or save a PDF file returned by a .aspx file?

I have a Flex application that calls a .aspx page on our webserver, which builds a PDF or Excel File. Right now, I am using navigateToURL() to call the file, and this works fine when the output file is built successfully. However, if there is an error, or timeout, there is no way of knowing this in the Flash movie. I am trying to use U...

Loading form input values from web pages into URLRequest?

How would I pull out the form values for the html source below and add them to an NSURLConnection? <tr> <th><label for="username"><span class="accesskey">N</span>etID:</label></th> <td><input id="username" name="username" class="required" tabindex="1" accesskey="n" type="text" value="" size="32" autocomplete="false"/...

Unexpected Flash Security Exception When Using URLLoader

Hello, What I am trying to accomplish is to upload some binary data, specifically a ByteArray representing a PNG image, to a server using the URLLoader class in conjunction with URLRequest. When I set the contentType property of the URLRequest to 'multipart/form-data' instead of the default, the call to urlLoader.load() results in a se...

Can a SWF (using URLLoader) access HTTPS webservice?

Hi, I have a fla (using ActionScript 3.0) I am compiling in Flash. I am using URLRequest and URLLoader to access a http webservice. var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(); var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http:test.webservice.com"); try { loader.load(request); } catch (error:Error) { trace("Unable to load requested...

What is the most robust way to force a UIView to redraw?

I have a UITableView with a list of items. Selecting an item pushes a viewController that then proceeds to do the following. from method viewDidLoad I fire off a URLRequest for data that is required by on of my subviews - a UIView subclass with drawRect overridden. When the data arrives from the cloud I start building my view hierarchy. ...

How do I fix this cross-domain ActionScript 3 error?

I'm going to be as specific and verbose as possible and include some of the code I'm using. I already did a search and found this question, which seems similar; however the author there was using ActionScript 2 instead of 3, and I couldn't seem to apply any of the answers given to my own situation effectively. I am trying to emulate (in...

How to specify the location of a remote machine's file in the URLRequest parameter? - Edited

Hi now I have found how to give a relative path in URLRequest paramate and download that file. I found it from this particular stack overflow post . Thanks to Christian Nunciato and heri0n. so now if If give my machine's relative path, C:/sample/DefectList.xls it works. Now I have to access an xls file kept in the server machine or any ...

UIWebView is not loading a page.

I got a UITabBarController and one of the bar items is a Navigation Controller with some buttons on it. One of the buttons opens up a urlRequest and load it in a UIWebView. NSURL * url = [NSURL URLWithString:myUrl]; NSURLRequest * urlRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]; UIWebView * web = [tView wView]; [web setScalesPageToFit:YE...

Importing SWF into FLA in AS2

Hello everyone. i am trying to load a swf coded in as2 into an fla that is in as2. When i import the code, certain components are missing. The first set of code is for the video player. The second block of code is the code i am using to embed it (unsuccessfully) ----Code Used To Create Video---- import cn.com.webstudio.util.*; Stage....

URLRequest with DELETE method

Need to find a way to send a delete method from Flash Player (Flex). Currently it's not done by default (except for from AIR), but I am sure someone has augmented the URLRequestHeader to get it to work properly. I've tried this, it isn't working: request.requestHeaders = [new URLRequestHeader("X-HTTP-Method-Override", DELETE_REQU...

Trying to change a child movieclips variable through the parent.

Hey guys, I been toying around with the new loader() event. I create 2 files. One named par.swf with the code below in it, and the other named chi.swf. chi.swf has 2 frames. on frame one it has an input box with the instance name of textboxonframe1 and on frame 2 there is a input box named textboxonframe2 (I am creative, I know.) For ...

SSL Client Side Certificate authentication in Adobe AIR

I'm trying to use a RESTful web service in Adobe AIR. The service uses client side certificates for authentication, thus I need to set the cert and private key used by AIR/Actionscript's URLRequest when connecting to this RESTful service. Is setting the Cert/Private Key possible in Adobe AIR? I did find some documentation from Adobe p...

AS3 URLRequest stored in array needs now to load, how?

Hey guys, I have a bit of code here that pulls, at random, 50 images from a file and pushes them into an array. I now need to pull, at random, 350 times from the array. I'm using a timer in place of the for loop to grab the images from the array. My code works fine as long as I do not use an array and I loop the images straight from t...

Actionscript 3: Memory Leak in Server Polling Presentation App

I'm building a remote presentation tool in AS3. In a nutshell, one user (the presenter) has access to a "table of contents" HTML page with links for each slide in the presentation, and an arbitrary number of viewers can watch the presentation on another page, which in turn is in the form of a SWF that polls the server every second to en...

Adobe AIR: How to play local mp3 file ?

Hi, I'm testing Adobe AIR with flex, and I wanted to play a mp3 via an open file dialog, I did that : import flash.filesystem.*; import flash.events.Event; import flash.media.*; import mx.core.SoundAsset; public var loadedFile:File; public var channel:SoundChannel; public var song:SoundAsset; private function loadFile():void { loade...

Combining URLRequest, URLLoader and Complete Event Listener In Actionscript 3.0?

when handling data, i always have to write the following: var dataSourceRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("/path/file.xml"); var dataSourceLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(dataSourceRequest); dataSourceLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleDataSource); while i can understand the usefulness of these 2 objects and event listen...