URL requests and networking

This section explains Adobe® AIR™ features that let applications communicate with the network. It also explains how to load data from external sources, send messages between a server and an AIR application, and perform file uploads and downloads using the FileReference and FileReferenceList classes.

This section describes the AIR networking and communication API—functionality uniquely provided to applications running in the runtime. It does not describe networking and communications functionality inherent to HTML and JavaScript that would function in a web browser (such as the capabilities provided by the XMLHttpRequest class).

• Basics of networking and communication
• Using the URLRequest class
• Working with external data
• Using the URLStream class
• Socket connections
• Opening a URL in the default system web browser
• Sending a URL to a server