The new Adobe AIR functionality related to specifying URL requests is not available to SWF content running in the browser. This functionality is only available to content in the application security sandbox. This section describes the URLRequest features in the AIR runtime, and it discusses networking API changes AIR content.

For other information on using ActionScript 3.0 networking and communications capabilities, see Programming ActionScript 3.0, delivered with both Adobe Flash CS3 and Adobe Flex Builder.

Contents

• Using the URLRequest class
• Changes to the URLStream class
• Opening a URL in the default system web browser