Saving flash drawing as png image to database

Hey guys and girls,
i've seen a few good examples to save out a png of the current flash display area from a webbrowser from a flash, such as:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/saving_flash_graphics.html
http://activeden.net/item/logo-maker-image-editor/99565
http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/tutorials/507-swf-png-actionscript-3-0-bytearray-class.htm l
what they normally do is stream the image data through a png encoder to a web server somewhere and then decode the image data back to current webbrowser and then trigger the web browser SAVE function, by prompting user to select a path and file name to save, like a download.
What I’m trying to do is very similar, however, the difference is when you click that save button, you can save your png image directly to a certain location with a fixed file name, such as on your local computer:
D:\flashimage\001.png
or on a file server: 10.21.111.111\flash_image\001.png
so i cant find the syntax here. can anyone give me some hints on this? thanks ahead!

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