@DVB I would love to be able to do something like that, but the flash player security prevents that kind of activity from a remote swf. You can definitely pull that off with AIR though.

You can read more about file upload and download, but the basic idea is that “the FileReference class allows you to upload and download files between a user’s computer and a server.”

Adobe AIR is a really cool way to develop applications, especially since it only extends current AS3 functionality, without the need to learn a whole new programming language.