RSS reader issue in air project

Question

I'm trying to build a simple adobe air application that reads an rss feed.

I succeeded in reading rss feeds, but I'm trying to read a specific one (provided by my school). When I change the url from the rss reader that works, I get an HTTP Request Error:

HTTP request error" faultCode="Server.Error.Request" faultDetail="Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: app:/url_req" errorID=2032]. URL: url_req"]

I tried many different ways to solve this but everytime I get no joy...

the HttpService is declared as follows:

<s:HTTPService id="lorenz" url="url_req" useProxy="false" />

where url_req is the variable with the url (which I can't give to protect my scholar data).

I did notice that when the url was entered in Interned Explorer it got an valid answer (firefox and chrome give an 500 error).

I am not an expert with rss, but I hope someone can help me with reading this feed. I inculded the headers from the feed I got via IE, hope this will help

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005">
<channel xmlns:cfi="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005/internal" cfi:lastdownloaderror="None">

Answer 1

I found the problem: Flex (or flash builder) can't seem to handle secure links very well...

By default, a SWF file served over an unsecure protocol, such as HTTP, cannot access other documents served over the secure HTTPS protocol, even when those documents come from the same domain. (adobe livedocs)

So I had to come up with a workaround: I created a php file that reads the secure content and passes it via a simple http protocol

the code:

$url="https:mySecuredUrl.com";
$str = file_get_contents($url);
echo $str;

now all I have to do is reading my feeds from the php file.