no way to check if a file path exists in a text box?

[Matt]

Is there a way to use JavaScript to check if a file path exists? For
example, user enter C:\eklrjlejr in a text box, and I want to check if
the file really exists. Is there a way to use JavaScript to do that?

please advise. thanks!!

[Evertjan.]

Matt wrote on 21 sep 2004 in comp.lang.javascript:

Is there a way to use JavaScript to check if a file path exists? For
example, user enter C:\eklrjlejr in a text box, and I want to check if
the file really exists. Is there a way to use JavaScript to do that?

Not in a browser on internet,
because the clientside HDD is forbidden ground.

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[kaeli]

In article <ba**************************@posting.google.com >,
jr********@hotmail.com enlightened us with...

Is there a way to use JavaScript to check if a file path exists? For
example, user enter C:\eklrjlejr in a text box, and I want to check if
the file really exists. Is there a way to use JavaScript to do that?

please advise. thanks!!

Yes, but not for a standard internet application.

An HTA can do this. MSIE/Windows only.

There is no way for a standard internet application.

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[bruce]

jr********@hotmail.com (Matt) wrote in message news:<ba**************************@posting.google. com>...

Is there a way to use JavaScript to check if a file path exists? For
example, user enter C:\eklrjlejr in a text box, and I want to check if
the file really exists. Is there a way to use JavaScript to do that?

please advise. thanks!!

Nothing i know in javascript. We use ActiveX controls for such purposes.