How to find references to the file system in a flash application?

Question

Hello everybody,

I need to disable all the aspects of functionality which access the client file system in a flash/flex application. I started having a look on how to do this. It appears that the package flash.filesystem need to be importated to allow the interaction with the file system.

However, I did not find any reference to this package in the application.

I am a beginner concerning these technologies so maybe I am missing a point here. Do I need to look into an other direction?

Thanks

Answer 1

Basic flash/as3 resource: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/as3.html

The flash.filesystem library is for AIR applications only because flash is not supposed to be able to reach outside the browser to affect a client's computer. That would be a security violation. Even AIR apps are highly restricted in this way.

Update:

Related Question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1417740/flash-actionscript-access-filesystem-without-air

This is brand-new in Flash 10.

Update 2:

And an older reference in Flash 9 here. Though it mentions that it's still subject to the user turning off permissions via their settings manager.