# Quick Question: Can Flash Directly Use Sockets?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-can-flash-directly-use-sockets/205470>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 30, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-can-flash-directly-use-sockets/205470 "2006-10-30T01:22:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sirisian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sirisian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sirisian)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-question-can-flash-directly-use-sockets/205470/1 "2006-10-30T01:22:21Z")

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As the title says, I would like to know if Flash 8 or any version of flash can access sockets. For instance like winsock does. Using an IP and a port to send packets? I’ve seen it can connect to databases, but I haven’t seen anything with it working with sockets, for instance a P2P chat using only an IP and a port to send an receive messages.