Using GET inside actionscript

Question

I'm deciding whether to use Adobe AIR to develop a desktop application.
I'm wondering if it's suitable for the functionality I'm looking at.
1. Needs to be able to process a URL address with a GET parameter, upon which an XML file will be returned.
2. Filter the XML returned and store some data into database.
3. One of the bits of data is an image file, which I guess should be no problem for AIR to display
I know PHP language but not developing it as a web app because users might get suspicious because they need to submit sensitive information online for the application to work.
Should I use AIR?

Answer 1

Yes, Air should be able to do this no problem.
1.  Yep, can do this no problem
2.  Air has SQLite support built in so you can create databases using the same type of SQL statements you're probably used to from PHP (note: some things are different in SQLite from standard SQL)
3.  Yep, you can get images from a URL as well and either display them directly or if it's an image that will be re-used alot simply store it in the SQLite database so the client does not have to retrieve it every time.