Thanks for the reply.
Well, the file will has to sit on the client machine.
In a bank where they are doing transaction over the
counters, the system got to know which machine is
which bank counter. So the system reads the file from
the hard disk to find out the counter. So as you might
notice this has to happen without any user
interaction. I thought of keeping the network
addresses against each counter in the database. But it
can't be done because of the IP addresses can change
dynamically.
any ideas would be appreciated
TIA
Alroy
--- Bill Pribyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WE
want to read a file which is in a client
> machine
> > thru UTL_FILE is it possible ?
> > We have to do this because forms ( ver 5) can't
> read
> > a file in the client when it is run through the
> oracle
> > web server.
>
> UTL_FILE can only read files on the machine where
> the oracle server is
> running. If your client can publish a filesystem
> (say, via NFS) that you
> can mount on the oracle server machine, you may be
> able to use UTL_FILE.
> But since you are talking about Forms I don't
> imagine this is an option to
> you. Also, using UTL_FILE is not very secure (of
> course, neither is NFS)
> and a lot of people who try to use it get pretty
> frustrated. I think some
> oracle 8.1+ sites are instead using the file I/O
> features of Java via (Java
> stored procedures) to read and write files on the
> database server machine.
>
> If the file is small you may be able to have the
> user upload it to the
> server via an HTML form (but you can't upload a file
> without some specific
> user action) or maybe via some Java applet. As far
> as I'm concerned, the
> HTML method relatively easy (also it is tried and
> true). You have to jump
> through a bunch of hoops to authorize Java to read a
> file, though.
>
> I suppose, though I've not done it, that Oracle's
> new "iFS" (Internet File
> System) might also provide a solution to the general
> problem of reading
> files from client machines into the database, maybe
> someone on the list
> could comment there..
>
> Just curious, what is the function of the file?
>
> Good luck
> Bill
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