Scope of meta-policies
The following kinds of servers can declare meta-policies:
* HTTP and HTTPS servers. Each server makes its own meta-policy declaration, which does not affect other servers. For example, the meta-policy of an HTTP server at port 80 affects only that server, and not an HTTP server at port 8080 on the same host. Likewise, the meta-policy of an HTTP server does not affect an HTTPS server on the same host, or vice versa.
* FTP servers. Again, each server makes its own meta-policy declaration.
* Entire hosts can declare a socket meta-policy, which governs low-level socket connections to that host on all ports. Low-level socket connections are those initiated using the ActionScript Socket and XMLSocket classes. Higher-level connections to HTTP and FTP servers, using any ActionScript APIs other than Socket and XMLSocket, should not be impacted by socket meta-policies, only by the meta-policy of the particular server involved. We sometimes refer to HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP meta-policies as URL meta-policies to distinguish them from socket meta-policies. For more about socket meta-policies, see the section on socket policy files.
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