Access command line in AS3

Question

I've searched on stackoverflow, but didn't find anything, and looked through the as3 documentation with the same result.
I want to do something like C's system(); or PHP's shell_exec(").

Is this possible? How?

possible duplicate of [Adobe AIR to execute program](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/672021/adobe-air-to-execute-program) — laurent, May 29 '12 at 12:13
That's possible only in AIR application. It's restricted to call any system process from browser applications. — Timofei Davydik, May 29 '12 at 12:14
Yes, I can imagine that, but couldn't you call a system process at the server? — 11684, May 29 '12 at 12:16
@Laurent Okay, I didn't recognize Adobe AIR as `as3`... But I want to keep it as3 — 11684, May 29 '12 at 12:17

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '12 at 12:23

Flash is client-side so you cannot call an executable on the server directly.

You could however create a PHP File on the server that would run your executable. Then you can launch this script from Flash using URLLoader:

var urlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest('http://example.com/somescript.php');
urlLoader.load(urlRequest);

Access command line in AS3

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