Seeing your email Brandon got me thinking about this again and I actually found a solution after deciding to google fakepath
from this resource: http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/the-mystery-of-cfakepath-unveiled/ "the real path to the file will be shown only if the page that contains the control is added to the trusted sites collection of the browser." Because this identifies the application server as the trusted site it SO worked for IE8 -- we will now instruct our installed base of this configuration requirement when using the application to create the links. Good admins might be able to do this with a policy or something... at any rate is we detect fakepath we can pop a dialog box or alert and let them know the solution.... or at least that is the plan short term. Next is to work out how to get it to work in Firefox :-( Thanks Brandon... oh and we have NO idea what folder structures are on the computers in the network that they might choose to create links on. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Brandon <brandonregis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why don't you just throw your directory structure into the database and > select it from a dropdown? Maybe do some ajax to simulate the parent/child > relationship when a directory is selected. > On Oct 4, 2010 6:08 PM, "Gonzo Rock" <gonzor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Using <input type="file" works great to let a user point to a file... >> but how do you let the user browse and point to a Directory? >> >> I am trying to figure out how to let a user browse to a particular >> directory location on their network and then capture that location for >> future use. In this instance the application will always look in this >> location for files that it needs to process for the user. >> >> Thanks! >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338103 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
