ActiveXObject

[Oren]

hi all,

i'm tring to get a file size by writing:
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

and i get the error:
Microsoft JScript runtime error: Automation server can't
create object

any ideas ?

Oren

[Chris Jackson]

If you are doing this in JavaScript on a web page, you can't access the
user's file system, which is why that is failing.

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hi all,

i'm tring to get a file size by writing:
var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

and i get the error:
Microsoft JScript runtime error: Automation server can't
create object

any ideas ?

Oren