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rs14smith
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September 20, 2014
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Visit A Website Behind The Scenes In Adobe Air Application...

  • September 20, 2014
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Hi all,

I am needing to find a way in Actionscript 3 for a Adobe Air application to visit a website url (ex. example.com) in the background without Adobe Air opening up a web browser.

After the website has loaded in the background, I would like to get all the URL link that the Adobe Air application may see. For example, maybe when you visit "example.com" it redirects you to "google.com", so I want my application to send me back whatever URL it sees after it loads the page.

Can this be done, and is there any sample code anywhere?

Thanks guys!

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Correct answer Aaron Beall

I think you can get the information you want by using URLLoader with a listener for HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS and check the responseHeaders and responseURL properties:

HTTPStatusEvent - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 ) API Reference

-Aaron

http://abeall.com

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FuManchu12
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September 23, 2014

you can probably use a hidden StageWebView for that. Even javascript redirects would be followed. I think you have to give the StageWebView a stage but the viewPort can stay at 0x0 width/height. The url can be recovered with webView.location

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rs14smithAuthor
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September 21, 2014

Update. I see you can use URLRequest to visit the URL, but I am still having a problem retrieving the new URL after the HTTP request has loaded/completed. Basically, the page that I visit will redirect you to another page, and I need to find out through Actionscript what page it was redirected to by looking at the URL.

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Aaron BeallCorrect answer
Inspiring
September 23, 2014

I think you can get the information you want by using URLLoader with a listener for HTTP_RESPONSE_STATUS and check the responseHeaders and responseURL properties:

HTTPStatusEvent - Adobe ActionScript® 3 (AS3 ) API Reference

-Aaron

http://abeall.com

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rs14smithAuthor
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September 23, 2014

Aaron, I think the route you mentioned the route I may give a shot. I see Adobe even has some example code that I should be able to figure out how to use in my application.

Fu, that sounds like a good idea too. I may go that route if Aaron's idea doesn't work.

Thanks guys

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