HTTP GET Requests with HTTP-Basic from Flash Player

Unfortunately, Flash Player doesn't support using request headers with GET requests, as noted here, due to what Adobe terms "browser limitations":

Due to browser limitations, custom HTTP reque开发者_运维百科st headers are only supported for POST requests, not for GET requests.

Hooray. That means I need to create my own HTTP socket class from scratch and find a way to run a policy server on the machine I'll be querying. Hooray.

If I want to make a simple GET HTTP request with HTTP-Basic auth headers, what do I need? I'd need something like

socket.write("HTTP GET REQUEST PAYLOAD HERE");
socket.flush();

What do I put in the write method to compose a GET request?

It's much more worth it to simply write a PHP or Python proxy to do it for you. See file_get_contents: Connection refused.