# Access external links?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-external-links/200512>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 12, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-external-links/200512 "2006-09-12T19:48:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![forza\_stiinta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc79bd/32.png) [@forza\_stiinta](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/forza_stiinta)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-external-links/200512/1 "2006-09-12T19:48:40Z")

</div>

Hello!  
I have a swf that reads data from and xml (data.xml). it work fine as long as the xml is on the same server as the swf… but if i have the xml file somewhere else (and i open it like [http://www.site2.com/data.xml](http://www.site2.com/data.xml)) it won’t read the data… why? what can i do? it seems that it does not access files outside its host?