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
Do you mean you just don't want the actual file uploaded...just the name
of it? You can probably accomplish this by having the file form field
in a separate form (that is not submitted). Then use javascript to
populate the field in the form that actually does get submitted.
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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
