Flash 8 file upload help returning data?

Right ok whats the deal with the flash 8 file upload facility?

it’s not possible to check for any returned data?

Taking from Macromedia help file live comments:

abuchkin said on Sep 18, 2005 at 11:26 PM :
Why there is no return value from the script page that file uploaded.
It’s not sense to trust the true value of this function to make sure yourself about to file has uploaded.
What if your script is getting a file and saving it after inserting a database record and getting that ID to use as name and what if you need that ID from client side on flash.

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Is this the case?

thanks
paul