[xmlrpcflash-development] Fwd: [xmlrpcflash - Open Discussion] secure functionality with Flash xmlrpc

[Isaac L. <is...@st...>]

Wordemup, I'm responding to this sourceforge-discussion posting right 
now, and Ed, I'll get back to your post in about 30 min-

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> From: no...@so...
> Date: Mon Nov 25, 2002  4:25:28 PM America/New_York
> To: no...@so...
> Subject: [xmlrpcflash - Open Discussion] secure functionality with 
> Flash xmlrpc
>
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> Dear all,
>
> we are developing the server side of an xmlrpc based application.
>
> Our partners are developing the client side in Flash, using the 
> xml-rpc library.
> We are keen to use standard HTTP auth mechanisms and SSL, but they are 
> having
> great trouble with this.
>
> Having looked over the documentation and source code myself, I can't 
> see any
> support for Auth methods (e.g. setBasicCredentials) in the xmlrpc lib, 
> or the
> underlying XML object (which is used for transport, via the 
> sendAndLoad method).
>
> I also noted in some more general Flash security documentation, that 
> XMLSockets
> do not support SSL,  and that the suggested fix is to roll your own MD5
> encryption.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Is there any way to use HTTP Auth with Flash xmlrpc?
>
> 2) Are SSL connections supported with Flash xmlrpc, or (I guess if it 
> used XMLSockets
> directly or indirectly) will we need to plug in our own MD5.
>
> I would be very grateful if you could cc any responses to 
> m.r...@uc...
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