Flash CS3 Tutorial – Binary Socket Fundamentals
by Carlos Pinho, March 26th, 2008

Binary Socket Fundamentals

On this new Lee Tutorial, learn how to use low-level binary sockets to connect to a POP3 mail server using ActionScript 3.

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4 Responses to “Flash CS3 Tutorial – Binary Socket Fundamentals”

  1. senocular Says:

    It should be noted that as of the new Flash Player release in April ALL socket connections (even on the same domain) require a socket-based policy file.

    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player9_security_update.html?devcon=f3

  2. maliboo Says:

    Nice one, but Socket class still suffers from lack of write progress status (Adobe bug base: SDK-12277), so you cannot send larger files/byte chunks:
    http://www.onflex.org/ted/2007/05/flexftp-ftp-client-in-flex-using.php

    ;(

  3. angryxtian Says:

    Wow that’s really complicatd. I don’t understand it at all. :(

  4. Roy Says:

    Very neat, nice basic overview. I just wish there weren’t the sandboxing, it means any client you make basically has to be connecting to your server. You can’t host a generic FTP client that lets you upload to any site. I understand why they do it that way, but it’s annoying nonetheless.

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