Busy creating a Flash MX-client which uses SOAP to connect to a webservice. This is what Jon Udell predicted... Allready succeeded in communicating with  Dan Marinescu's Chess Webservice. Now i only have to write some code to parse the server's response. Damn! This is all too easy!

UPDATE: only works when Flash-movie is on localhost. When movie is placed on webserver: no connect.... Grrr. So still need some server-side scripting to make this work. Cause: The Flash function sendAndLoad: The URL must be in the same subdomain as the URL where the movie was downloaded from.

UPDATE #2: workaround1: create XMLHTTP-object using JavaScript on clientside to send the call and recieve the response. workaround2: use a PHP-script on some server to make the call.

The buttons below are using the XMLHTTP ActiveX (you have to enable the 'data access across domains' option within IE's security settings to make this work):