Connecting to a secure server from flash media server via xml.sendAndLoad

Hello All,

I have inherited a custom application on Flash Media Interactive Server 3.0 that broadcasts audio in real time. The custom app is written using Adobe Flash Professional 8 and actionscript 2.0.

A little background of how the custom app works

When a user connects to the media server to join a stream, our custom application calls out to a seperate application server (that is not Flash) to determine if the user is allowed to connect to a broadcast stream and which stream they should join. We use Xml.sendAndLoad() to do this. The application server we call sends back Xml to the custom App on the Flash Media Server.

The problem

This all works great when the external app server is at http but fails if the external app is using SSL. I've read in the documentation that Flash Media Server allows for outgoing communications with other servers to use SSL but I can find no details on how to implement.

The questions I have are:

1. Can the Flash Media Server talk to a non Flash server via SSL?

2. Can XML.sendAndLoad( ) connect to a SSL url?

3. Where can I find some info on how to set things up if the above two are true?

Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated!

-John