Solution to a simple requirement: How to allow user to browse/providelocal folder location/path for download

[Radhey Krishna]

A very interesting problem for a simple requirement and not easily
available solution:

How would I create a button which will allow the user to specify where
the file to be downloaded will be saved to??

The actual problem is that I have multiple drop down buttons (for
multiple files) with each of the drop down button containing an option
to save to a local folder. Once the user specifies the local path for
each of these files and clicks the submit button. All of the files
will be saved automatically to these locations.

I thought that this is a simple and decent requirement by the client
but I have found no solutions on the web. So JavaScript developers,
please provide some suggestions on how to access the directory path
string (which will be used to download the file).

Thanks and Regards
RadKri

[Randy Webb]

Radhey Krishna said the following on 1/26/2008 9:06 PM:

A very interesting problem for a simple requirement and not easily
available solution:

How would I create a button which will allow the user to specify where
the file to be downloaded will be saved to??

The actual problem is that I have multiple drop down buttons (for
multiple files) with each of the drop down button containing an option
to save to a local folder. Once the user specifies the local path for
each of these files and clicks the submit button. All of the files
will be saved automatically to these locations.

I thought that this is a simple and decent requirement by the client
but I have found no solutions on the web. So JavaScript developers,
please provide some suggestions on how to access the directory path
string (which will be used to download the file).

You can't. Not with JS or any other language on the web. It is a
security issue whereby browser manufacturers agree that my personal PC
settings are off-limits.

Download a file, save it where you want.
Repeat until finished.

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