Has anyone brought this up before? I came across this article that's an implementation of HTTP requests using sockets rather than Bridge's HttpConnection class/object, so this should execute w/o dependency on Bridge/Bridgetalk I believe. I haven't tried it out myself. Thought I'd share. Also not sure if this article was already previously mentioned somewhere within the Adobe forums.
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