I thought AIR applications ran in a trusted sandbox, but I am getting a security sandbox violation for a socket connection. It used to work, off and on, but I just started messing with on old project again and now it doesn't work at all.
Targeting Flex 3 SDK with Flex Builder 4 beta.
socketIOError: Error #2031: Socket Error. URL: 174.37.152.44
socketSecurityError: Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: app:/mainMenu.swf cannot load data from :443.
Edit: I found the problem. It was an incorrect IP, and simply failing to connect. Not sure why it gave me the sandbox violation error, but it was basically a bad error in that it didn't really have anything to due with the security sandbox.
Best Answer
The issue had nothing to due with the security sandbox, the error was misleading. I had the wrong IP. There was no server listening at that IP, and it simply was failing to connect.