Calling secure (SSL) remote service from local Flex app running in Flexbuilder

By admin on 18/07/2009

If you have your remoting service running under SSL you might find when trying to use it from FlexBuilder you get an error along the lines of:

Channel.Security.Error error Error #2048:

Security sandbox violation: file://localhost/Users/Username/Flex/Projects/MyProject/bin-debug/MyProject.swf cannot load data from https://www.mywebsite.com/remoting/weborb.aspx. url: 'https://www.mywebsite.com/remoting/weborb.aspx'"

Firstly make sure you have a cross domain file but I'm assuming you've already done that much, all you need to do is add the following to allow your locally running (non-secure) site to access the secure remote site by adding this: