On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:00:02PM +0100, Neville Hodder wrote: > I am in the process of learning how to use the CGI.pm module but can not > find a method that will allow me to simply choose a 'remote' file. I > need to be able to return the value "path+filename" of a file that the > user has browsed to using something like the standard HTML form type:
It isn't possible. For that sort of thing you'll need something like an ActiveX control with permission to read the user's file system. (Or to get the user to type the path to the file). Since the server doesn't have permission to access the user's file system over the Internet, and since that file system might be UNIX type, DOC type, or some other unknown type - it isn't a particularly useful feature to build into HTML. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
