AS3 Quirk: navigateToURL + POST

I was experiencing a strange error: when using code similar to Adobe’s example shown below, the URL Request was performing a GET behavior instead of a POST. This only seemed to occur in Adobe’s test environment (e.g. Control > Test Movie). It works fine on an actual web server.

package {

import flash.display.Sprite;

import flash.net.navigateToURL;

import flash.net.URLRequest;

import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;

import flash.net.URLVariables;

public class URLRequest_method extends Sprite {

public function URLRequest_method() {

var url:String = "http://www.[yourDomain].com/application.jsp";

var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);

var variables:URLVariables = new URLVariables();

variables.exampleSessionId = new Date().getTime();

variables.exampleUserLabel = "guest";

request.data = variables;

request.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;

navigateToURL(request);

}

}

}