Can i change this download func to use http service?

Question

This a download function i have:
     //Downloads a file and calls the writeFile func
          private function downloadFile(url:String):void{
               var urlStream:URLStream = new URLStream();
               var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
               //var downloadFileName:String=getDownloadFilename(url);
               urlStream.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, writeFile);
               urlStream.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR , function (e:IOErrorEvent):void{
               urlStream.load(request);
               urlStream.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError);
I need to change the URL request to send a user/name password in the header for authentication...i can do this with a httpservice...but not a url request
Can someone change the above code to use a http serivce? instead of a URLrequest/stream? Not sure how to do it

Answer 1

You can do the same with UrlRequest as well and for that you need to make use of UrlRequest headers in order to do the authentication
Check out this link...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/509219/flex-3-how-to-support-http-authentication-urlreq uest
Thanks,
Bhasker