Making the URL of an HTTP data service call the same domain it is served from

Question

Hi All,
I've got an HTTP service I defined in Flash Builder, via the "Data Services" tab.  I've got an absolute URL in there right now.  Here's what it looks like:
What I really want is to not define a path that includes a domain name at all--I want the service to simply call an absolute path that's on the same domain as whatever domain the SWF was served from... can I do that?  When I got rid of the base URL and then gave an absolute URL path (e.g., /roster/deleteMember), Flex Builder complained that "File does not exist."  Well, of course it doesn't exist, it isn't a file, it's a URL to a service call--there is no corresponding file on the filesystem.
Can anyone advise me how to do that?  Changing the domain name has at least once caused me a great deal of trouble, and the only workaround I was able to figure out was to create a whole new project and copy/paste all the code from my previous project into that new project, and recreate the data service definitions.  Big headache!

Answer 1

mmh,
from the adobe documentation:
The configuration files sometimes contain special {server.name} and {server.port} tokens. These tokens are replaced with server name and port values based on the URL from which the SWF file is served when it is accessed through a web browser from a web server. Similarly, a special {context.root} token is replaced with the actual context root of a web application.
Whenever is a RemoteService, HttpService or WebService... if you specify the endpoint as http://{server.name}:{server.port}/{context.root}
automatically on runtime, the variables are set by the flashplayer depending on where you've been downloaded the application. So, if the webservices are deployed on the same server where the flex application is downloaded, this is the solution.
But in your case,  maybe you cannot do that through the plugin you are using for declaring your services, but have to programmatically solve it.
Bye,
Lionel