JSFL http communication

[Scott]

Hi,

I have written an After Effects plugin that uses Socket to communicate
via XML with a web site to retrieve and set data.

I was hoping to do the same in Flash CS5. Pretty familiar with JSFL
but this seems outside its capabillity.
So far I think my only options are to:
1. Write a console app to do the setting of data and call via
'FLfile.runCommandLine(param)'
2. See if a C extension can do the job.

Option 1 is preferable but it doesnt look like I can read any console
data to retrieve info from the web service.