StageWebView to also accept URLRequest to load URL

[2jfw]

It would be helpful, if StageWebView would also accept URLRequest for loading an URL.
In that way, we would be more flexible and could e.g. add custom Request Headers etc..

[2jfw]

Pls any statement/update on this one @ajwfrost ?

[ajwfrost]

Hi - sorry, I had meant to look into this. We'd need to double-check whether it's actually possible to provide the custom headers etc to the third party components that are used for the StageWebView. We're also looking at the potential to have some other html-engine be used for a platform-agnostic StageWebView so would need to see what sort of options that provides.

So although we can nominally accept a URLRequest, we can't necessarily promise that the custom headers are passed through to the request.... it would have to depend on the underlying implementation.

thanks

[2jfw]

Thanks Andrew, this would help a lot!

I saw the post regarding the Ultra-Light HTML Renderer Engine and it looks quite nice, so fingers crossed on this one!

[2jfw]

@ajwfrost: Any news on this?

[ajwfrost]

This would need to go in two steps I think:

1. update the API to allow a URLRequest (fairly straightforward, but an AS3 API update...)
2. update the platform implementations to see if we can use the information from there.

Will try to get this one bumped up the priorities a little...
thanks