On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:42:29AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > > 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). > > And that, in turn, can only be reliable with IE on Windows.
Well, that specific example anyway :) I suspect a signed Java applet could work on other systems. Its not reliable on IE anyway - its unlikely that all users would have their security low enough (and accept the alerts) for it to run. However, I have trouble conceiving of a circumstance where it would be useful to do this over the WWW, so its probably in an environment where user agents can be mandated. > I'm not aware of anyone getting ActiveX to work on anything other than > the IE/Windows combination. Admittedly, that's something like 90% of web > users, but Firefox, in particular, seems to be growing fast now. I seem to recall somebody managing to run ActiveX and IE under WINE :) -- 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>
