Can't download remote files with Adobe AIR

Question

Hi all,
I have an adobe AIR application that tries to allow the user
to directly download a remote file. Here's the current code:
var fileRef:FileReference = new FileReference();
// Bunch of Event listeners here
var urlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("
http://www.randomfilehere.com/hello.txt");
fileRef.download(urlReq);
Now, when I try to download any random file, let's say
http://www.example.com/buca-di-beppo.gif,
I will get a OS-specific download box that asks me where to save
the file; I choose desktop and 'save' yet nothing happens (but when
I trace the HTTP response through Fiddler I get HTTP/1.1 200 OK,
and apparently all data has been successfully transferred to the
host machine, it just is not saved as a file.
A worse problem occurs with getting a file through HTTPS, as
in https://www.example.com/secure-image.gif. Air will try to
initiate approximately 3,940 http requests (plus or minus 3), that
all return 200 OKs, before eventually stalling (and sometimes
getting a 502).
Does anyone have any idea how to resolve these problems? The
AIR application is of course not a browser-based application so I
didn't think the cross-domain.xml would be applicable here (and if
it is, I don't know where to put it). Any help would be
GREATLY appreciated! Thanks very much for your time.

Answer 1

Hi,
Take a look at
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=3637d5c3
and see if it helps you.