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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 149

Actionscript 3: Reading an RSS feed that requires authentication

I have an RSS feed that I need to read, but you need to log in with a valid username and password to get the feed. I was wondering if or how to do this using Actionscript 3.

Right now I have a very simple script that just gets the xml from a provided url and outputs the xml to the console.

I've verified that it works with a feed that doesn't require authentication.

Let me know if code or anything more specific is needed.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 401

Answers (1)

Nate
Nate

Reputation: 2881

If you're using an http service, you can do basic authorization with by extending the HTTPService : 

package{
    import mx.rpc.AsyncToken;
    import mx.rpc.http.mxml.HTTPService;
    import mx.utils.Base64Encoder;

    public class HTTPServiceAuth extends HTTPService
    {
        public var username : String = '';
        public var password : String = '';
        public function HTTPServiceAuth(rootURL:String=null, destination:String=null)
        {
            super(rootURL, destination);
        }

        override public function send(parameters:Object=null ):AsyncToken {
            var enc : Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
            enc.insertNewLines = false;
            enc.encode(username + ':' + password );
            this.headers = {Authorization:"Basic " + enc.toString())};
            super.send(parameters);
        }
    }
}

You use it the same way except you can specify a username and password : 

<local:HTTPServiceAuth url="http://www.domain.com/feed/etc" username="myUsername" password="myPassword" ...rest of standard args, etc... />

Upvotes: 1

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