[osflash] Programmatic Control of Flash Player

[paul petrick]

I'm looking to do something a bit odd with a flash player (either Adobe's or 
one of the open source alternatives). I'd like to be able to programatically 
launch a swf and have it run automatically. While it's communicating with a 
server, I'd like to be able to capture the data being sent to and from the 
player. And here are the 2 most important parts. First, neither the server 
or swf file will have been generated by me, so I can't modify the code in 
either - that is, I will be running the swf and looking just to capture the 
data being passed back and forth between it and a server. Second, this needs 
to run as a background process without human interaction. Bonus points for 
anyone that can suggest a command line tool for actually interacting with a 
flash movie programatically.

I have spent the better part of the day examining various tools out there to 
do this, but I can't seem to find anything that I can use as a platform for 
developing my own tool to accomplish the above.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the matter?

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