How does Flash Player projector/standalone connect to the Internet

[Guest]

I know that when a web service call is made from a flash player in the browser that the underlying browser is used to handle the traffic.  I also know that this isn't the case with flash projector because the security docs say that the projector files can't take advantage of SSL because they aren't run in the context of the browser.  So what mechanism does a standalone or projector application use to connect to the Internet?  I'm trying to analyze a possible application for someone from a security point of view, but I'm not sure what mechanism is in place.

Thanks to anyone who knows or even knows of some decent references.  I can't find much on projectors....

[pwillener]

As far as I know, the standalone player does not connect to the Internet - it just plays local Flash content.

Or can you actually give it an Internet (http) location to play?  (I do not currently have Projector installed, so I cannot try it.)

[Guest]

I can connect to the internet and make web service calls, etc.  I know that it uses the default system browser if you do something that requires a browser specifically (like navigateToURL) - but I'm trying to figure out what mechanism it uses to make service calls where no "browser" is used.

[chris.campbell]

I asked around and was told it was just OS level networking api's.

Chris