Flash networking

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m3mn0n
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Flash networking

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I have very limited knowledge of the inner workings of ActionScript so bare with me here....


Is it possible for Flash running on a client machine within a page to ping a server and then retrieve that data for display?
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I've only played with their xmlsocket untill now..

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash ... ry860.html.


I suppose they support regular socket stuff too...
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Post by m3mn0n »

Interesting.

So I'm guessing you start a timer, then try to establish a connection with the server, then once it's been established, stop the timer and display how many ms it took?

Is that right or is there a more efficient/easier way?
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