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I have a blazeds proxy configuration set up with my flex application to communicate with a RESTful webservice.
This webservice is practically an interface to a content management system which has all types of content text and binary(audio,video,images etc) protected by HTTP basic authentication. I had no reason to use Blazeds except for its proxy capabilities to enable HTTP Authentication headers to be sent from the application to the webserver which dont work when sent directly to the server as mentioned.See related post below -
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/136576
I send the requests through HTTPService from flex through a configured destination and it works well for all data formats supported by HTTPservice. Unfortunately HTTPService does not support binary resultformat for images,audio and video. I am aware that i should use a streaming server for audio and video data but for images I would like to go through the blazeds proxy to the webserver. Loader is the only class which is recommended to be used with images but i am not sure of how to use it with blazeds.
Is it possible in anyway to achieve what I am trying to?
Thanks,
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