[flexcoders] Local file access

One of the noticeable differences between Silverlight and Flash is the way they handle local file access. In Flash we have to upload a file to the server before we can gain access to the file's contents. In Silverlight you get access to the file as soon as it is selected by the user. My question

[flexcoders] local file access thru HTTPService fails

Hi all this seems like such a simple thing, and yet ... my project currently lives in the directory My Documents/Flex Builder 2/xmlshow and works fine. If I take the entire directory and copy it to my desktop, and then open xmlshow_app.html it no longer works. Specifically it doesn't load my