Actually it is the client's browser that has access to the client's disk - Your action script will handle the upload, and renaming it to a variable that is calling it into the movie.
===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barney Boisvert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: RE: Macromedia.Com (The new site?) | If Flash were allowed to access the filesystem directly, you'd have all | kinds of problems. However, if the flash movie only made API requests to | the browser, in exactly the same way the HTML's INPUT element does, then | you'd be fine. That would require pretty tight binding of the flash plug-in | to the browser it's designed for, but that's the price you pay. | | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 1:43 PM | > To: CF-Talk | > Subject: RE: Macromedia.Com (The new site?) | > | > | > Jochem, | > | > But isn't this where the conflict lies? If Flash is to have file | > uploading, it means it would need some way to access the client's disk | > (outside of the cookie-esque system in place). But isn't that where | > security issues would come in to play? Now I would have an application | > (not an inactive HTML form control) that could access my disk. I always | > assumed this is why this functionality was left out of Flash. I would | > almost guarantee that the government would disallow the flash plug-in if | > this was the case. | > | > Adam Wayne Lehman | > Web Systems Developer | > Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | > Distance Education Division | > | > | > -----Original Message----- | > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 4:12 PM | > To: CF-Talk | > Subject: Re: Macromedia.Com (The new site?) | > | > Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote: | > > Yeah. I gotta disagree on the flash replacing traditional desktop | > apps. | > > Big draw back of flash is the lacking ability of local file | > > manipulation. Hence there is no way to upload a file via flash. So | > even | > > in the most advanced RIA, if any client files are needed, you have to | > go | > > back to HTML. | > | > Local files are evil because IT managers have no control over them ;-) | > | > Apart from that, just fill out the wishform. File uploading is not an | > outrageous feature. The groundwork, a wire-protocol that supports binary | > | > transfer, is in place already. | > | > Jochem | > | > | > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
