Comments on: Cookies and Actionscript

By: HoboZero

HoboZero — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:02:19 +0000

I just thought I’d add that it appears that the authentication cookies created in Internet Explorer are used in all browsers.

for example, first trip to page using Firefox will not save a cookie. The second trip will fail since there is no cookie available. If you then go using IE, the next request in Firefox will work because it uses the IE cookie.

I’m currently trying to resolve how to keep cookies browser specific.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:30:35 +0000

Yes the URLLoader stores cookies and hence stores cookies needed to maintain a logged in session.

You can turn that functionality off if you want the cookie data in the response headers.

var myLoader = new air.URLLoader();
var myRequest = new air.URLRequest(url);
myRequest.manageCookies = false;

You will need to do this is you want to get a cookie value manually from the headers.

In a air.HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS event loop through the event.responseHeaders and look for event.responseHeaders[i].name == ‘Set-Cookie’ to get the headers.

Hope this helps someone.

By: Ezrad Lionel

Ezrad Lionel — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:48:08 +0000

Pretty cool stuff. What are you studying at Uni? I fear my life will be gone once I get into Actionscript. Yeah, we have the same name, they actually added a d because the priest said Ezrad is androgynous. I have a cousin named Ezrad too. sorry for freaking out I dont meet too many people with that name, in fact, none.

good day