On Jul 7, 2005, at 9:00 AM, 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 somet
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:14:42PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> > Well, that specific example anyway :) I suspect a signed Java applet
> > could work on other systems.
> I thought Java applets were sandboxed, and that access to the filesystem
> was explicitly not allowed. Have things changed in
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, David Dorward wrote:
> 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
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From: Neville Hodder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: How to browse and select a remote file and then return the
filename
I am in the process of learning how to use the CGI.pm module but can not
find a method that will
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 r
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, David Dorward wrote:
> 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 "
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 brows
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:
I do NOT wa
