Chapter 13. Networking
Most of this book’s content focuses on interactions between an application and the operating system as a whole. This includes making windows, creating menus for common tasks, interacting with the clipboard, and working with files, directories, and databases. Naturally, much of what an application does involves these tasks. But there’s a whole different realm of interactions that can take place between an application and other computers: networking activities.
This chapter is dedicated to client-server communications, where the AIR application running on the user’s computer is the client and another computer is the server. One of this chapter’s examples will simply show how to confirm that a server is available for communications. ...
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