Comments on: No custom headers for FileReference.upload. Why?

By: Martijn de Visser

Martijn de Visser — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:26:31 +0000

Hm, intersting - not sure if I can make a regular POST requist using Sockets though. Thanks for your feedback!

By: Sidney de Koning

Sidney de Koning — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:26:25 +0000

Hi Martijn,

Did some research on this; Why not use the Socket Class? That way you can read/write anything to a specific port. And also write the custom header needed for this google api auth. Try looking into that.

Hope this helps,

Sidney de Koning

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:25:54 +0000

seems to be a similar issue as the filereference issue for mac users. I’m not sure if there’s a link, but I hope Adobe starts urgent with improving the filereference possibility. That would be necessary to be able to build professional cross platform web applications.

By: Martijn de Visser

Martijn de Visser — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:47:01 +0000

@isxylands - yes, that is sort of what you need, but like I said, request headers are simply ignored by the Flash Player when they are added to a FileReference.upload request. Bummer.

By: isxylands

isxylands — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:31:14 +0000

@Dave:
I think Martijn need this:
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(_uploadUrl + â��?filename=â�� + id);
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
request.setHeader(”headerName”, “headerValue”);
// or request.addHeader(”headerName”, “appendedValue”);
_f.upload(request, â��imageâ��, false);

but adobe not support this yet…

By: Martijn de Visser

Martijn de Visser — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:45:27 +0000

@Sidney - yeah a proxy could certainly do the trick, but I wanted to create a standalone app. I’ll have a look and see if using a proxy means that the actual upload will go ‘through’ the proxy. If not, this could be a solution, else my server would soon die if many people start using such an app (due to bandwidth limitations).

By: Sidney de Koning

Sidney de Koning — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:11:03 +0000

Maybee you this is your answer: http://framework.zend.com/download/gdata

Good luck and keep us posted on any developemnts!

Sid

By: Sidney de Koning

Sidney de Koning — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:03:53 +0000

What if you work with an proxy php file that, only when you upload you do a call to that file, php sends the custom header, and passes the result back to flash. I know you probably want to do this all in Flash without the need of any other languages, but it could solve your problems

Cheers,

Sid

By: Martijn de Visser

Martijn de Visser — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:45:36 +0000

@Dave: Thanks for your feedback, but unfortunately, that doesn’t do the trick, as you really need control over the actual HTTP headers when the request is sent.

So, adding variables and all woks fine, it is the requestHeaders where things break.

It is ironic, actual uploading to YouTube works (yeehah!), but the file is rejected afterwards, beause the YT server cannot find the correct data it is ecpecting in the request headers. Sigh…

By: Dave Nicoll

Dave Nicoll — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:13:54 +0000

Isn’t this the kind of thing you need..?

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(_uploadUrl + “?filename=” + id);
request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
_f.upload(request, “image”, false);