# Can't access non local URLs.. but sometimes I can?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-access-non-local-urls-but-sometimes-i-can/308376>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 21, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-access-non-local-urls-but-sometimes-i-can/308376 "2010-04-21T20:17:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jany](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jany)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-access-non-local-urls-but-sometimes-i-can/308376/1 "2010-04-21T20:17:58Z")

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Ok this one has confused me since I touched flash and AS3.0.

90% of the time, when I am trying to access a URL, or connect to anything on the internet through AS3, it doesn’t work and tells me that it can’t find the URL, or w/e I am trying to access. When I upload it to a server, any server, it works fine, but testing it from within the IDE, it doesn’t, maybe 10% of the time it might actually work. I don’t get this? How come it can’t access these external connections while trying to run it locally? Any ideas? :ponder:☹