Hello,

I'm faced with a request from a client of mine. He wants me to build a news
ticker and a top ten list based on a file that gets updated once a week. This
file is located on an outside server and is accessible using a username and
password. Is there any way that flash can access this without the use of any
other technology? Help!!

It seems that Flash doesn't have a support for FTP so you eather have to be
able to authorise the access to that site by passing the URL vars like
http://username:password@URL or server side scripting (SSS) is your only
option. Since it's very likely that the host where SWF will be located has SSS
it is the easiest way.