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).

Contents

• 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