Hey Everyone,
just a quick note on getting data from a host that requires HTTP Authentication.. First:

It seems to only work with POST
If your server is in PHP (probably other languages too), GET or POST is the same thing, doesn’t matter. You can have bogus post data and still pass GET data in the URL.
You will [...]

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Hi Everyone,
today I will continue on this topic:

Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 - Part 1

and the following installments are here:

Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 - Part 3
Tutorial - Playing FLV video in plain AS3 - Part 4 - Sample Usage

In the first part I only discussed the essentials [...]

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Hi Everyone,
today I will explain how to play .FLV files that are hosted on a standard HTTP server, no fancy streaming. You can use pre-made components to do so, but sometimes, for whatever reason, you want to do it yourself. I wrote my first FLV playing algorithm in AS3 about 10 months ago, it has [...]

Filed under: actionscript, as3, as3 tutorials, flash, work, flv, netconnection, netstream, video | 7 Comments