This project is meant to extend the capabilities Adobe Flash Player 9 for HTTP/HTTPS related things.
Following are the objectives:-
- Support for HTTP Basic Authentication through HTTP/GET
- Way to get different HTTP status messages
- Add support for HTTPS
Background:-
One the classes is HTTPURLLoader, which was created to do HTTP Basic Authentication through HTTP/GET which is not doable with Adobe Flash Player 9 URLLoader API. For example, Bloglines API needs that kind of authentication.
HTTPURLLoader also provides different HTTP status messages and can be used for different HTTP methods.