19.9. Distributor Permissions (Policy Files)

Throughout this chapter, we've seen plenty of ways in which Flash Player's security system restricts a .swf file's access to foreign resources. Now let's examine how, in some cases, a resource distributor can use distributor permissions to override those restrictions.

Recall that a "resource distributor" is the party that delivers a resource from a given remote region. For example, a web site administrator and a socket-server administrator are both resource distributors.