=?Utf-8?B?UGV0ZXI=?= wrote on 12 okt 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:
I do have an ASP page with vbscript code entirely executed on the IIS
server. The page contains a lot of data coming from the SQL Server.
I want to populate one of the <selectboxes on that page with data
coming from a file stored on the clients local hard drive.
How do I achieve this?
You don't.
ASP runs ONLY on the server
and ONLY sends the computed html to the client.
Clientside coding, in javascript,
[or if IE only, also in clientside vbscript]
could read from the client's hard disk
ONLY if the security of the browser is compromized.
This however, besides being unwize,
is outside the scope of this ASP NG.
You could say, as many have done before you,
and you could and should have read in the archive,
that your application is so important, that it
is justfied that asp programmers should help you to
make clientside script, that also is dangerous to the ordinary user
if it were even possible, but I would not agree with you there.
So I would urge you not even to search for appropriate NG's,
but to abandon your quest.
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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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