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 to the file). > > > > And that, in turn, can only be reliable with IE on Windows. > > 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 the past few years? I thought the whole point of Java applets was that they were "safe", in part, because they couldn't interact with the underlying filesystem. > I seem to recall somebody managing to run ActiveX and IE under WINE :) That barely counts :-) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
