Comments on: XMLHttpRequest vs. XML vs. URLLoader: API Comparisons

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:44:13 +0000

Aye, and so does flash.net.Socket… but these are strictly request/response API’s I’m talking about, not persistent sockets. AJAX isn’t persistent, and neither is XML nor URLLoader. So, to be fair to the AJAX camp, I used those types of classes. XMLSocket & Socket make it… well, unfair. I went for the 3 stroke knife kill, not the headshot.

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:36:54 +0000

on the synchronous vs asynchronous front, dont forget that XMLSocket ( a 4th approach) offers a fully statefully connection with the server

By: claus wahlers

claus wahlers — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:18:21 +0000

Groovy!

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:15:31 +0000

Hell yeah. Check out flash.net.URLRequest and flash.net.URLRequestHeader. Exactly what you are looking for. Link to AS3 docs on Livedocs.

By: claus wahlers

claus wahlers — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:09:40 +0000

I haven’t really looked into it in detail, do you happen to know if URLLoader supports full access to HTTP headers? And am i able to send HTTP request headers (things like authorization, content-range etc come to mind)