HTTPService redirect

Question

I'm trying to use J2EE Servlet form based authentication by
posting to the well-known url j_security_check. In my web.xml file
I specify FORM authentication and my custom Flex login page. Upon
accessing a protected resource, I am redirected to my login page as
expected. Upon successful login the server sends an HTTP redirect
back to the protected resource, but I can't figure out how to
capture this redirect. My fault method will get called if I use the
wrong password, however the result method does not get called,
probably because it is a redirect. The server is actually
authenticating the user, because if I access the protected resource
again in the same session it works fine.
How can I get the HTTPService to follow a redirect, or at
least how can I get notification that the call has completed?
I'm using Tomcat in JBoss and the following code demonstrates
the problem, even without configuring web.xml.
Thanks,
Brian
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
verticalScrollPolicy="off"
defaultButton="{login}"
>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.rpc.events.FaultEvent;
import mx.rpc.events.ResultEvent;
private function onResult(event:ResultEvent):void {
// Never reached
trace(event);
private function onFault(event:FaultEvent):void {
// Called after unsuccessful login
trace(event);
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:HTTPService id="loginService" url="j_security_check"
method="POST" result="onResult(event)" fault="onFault(event)">
<mx:request>
<j_username>{username.text}</j_username>
<j_password>{password.text}</j_password>
</mx:request>
</mx:HTTPService>
<mx:Panel id="panel" title="Login">
<mx:Form id="form">
<mx:Label id="directions" text="Please Login:"/>
<mx:FormItem label="Username">
<mx:TextInput id="username"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem label="Password">
<mx:TextInput id="password" displayAsPassword="true"/>
</mx:FormItem>
<mx:FormItem id="passwordConfirmItem" label="Confirm:"
visible="false">
<mx:TextInput id="passwordConfirm"
displayAsPassword="true"/>
</mx:FormItem>
</mx:Form>
<mx:ControlBar>
<mx:Spacer width="100%" id="spacer1"/>
<mx:Button label="Login" id="login"
click="loginService.send();"/>
</mx:ControlBar>
</mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>

Answer 1

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I am facing the same problem right now, and I can't seem to find a solution.