Being a total newbie to Flex and reading the great tutorials of Hello World, I would like to know if anyone has used Flex 3.0 and the Flick API with authentication???
I would like to create a Flex app as a cool slide show that can access my private photos from my flickr account not the public ones in my account.
I know I have to use API authentication with Flickr. But I don’t know what or how to go about this with flex.
The Flex tutorial on Adobe shows how to do this for public photos.
I haven’t messed with the Flickr API at all. But if it is anything like the Gdata API, you are probably going to need to have a session token being used either in the header or the GET params of your HTTP call.
In using Flex with the gdata services, I was using a PHP service layer. Basically the idea is that your site would check for the session token or the one-time use token in the URL. If it was there, then you were able to see your SWF. If not, you were redirected to the sign in page, which had vars pointing back to the SWF page. Then you would be redirected back after sign in with the token in the URL. Then you could make a call to a service, sending that token to get a session token. Then any subsequent calls would require that session token in order to authenticate your requests.
Does that help? Shoot me an email and I will swap my IM with you if you are interested.
