If the request requires authentication and URLRequest.authenticate is set to true (the default) the operating systems login window will popup asking for credentials. These will be automatically sent in the request. To manually set the username and password there are a few ways:

URL Request Defaults:

URLRequestDefaults.setLoginCredentialsForHost("www.domain.com",username,password);

Headers:

var encAuth:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
encAuth.encode(username+":"+password);
var header:URLRequestHeader = new URLRequestHeader("Authorization","Basic "+ encAuth.toString() );
var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
request.requestHeaders.push(header);

Under both ways, once a successful login occurs the credentials are remembered while the application is open and the user is not asked for username and password again.

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