if you want to get technical, you actually have done it before because connecting to a "website" on your local machine (localhost) is just like connecting to a live website :/ but, whatever.

you posted this before:
Code:
var dataurl:String = "http://astafeweb.net16.net/Bazaar Ceramics/";
which is no where near the same URL as what you just posted. and, just like I said before, the URL above is just a directory listing... if you put that URL in, then it's not going to do anything.