Read client text file from web server

Hello all, I am creating a log analyzer cfm page for an internal db application, and I've got a question about cf pages reading files. When I view the page locally, I am able to read the log files just fine as is when I use input tyep="file". However, when I uploaded this page to my web

Re: Read client text file from web server

It's possible that you could do some reading/parsing using the FileSystemObject and some client-side JavaScript. At that point you could transfer the info to the server. In all likelihood, a message will be popped up to the user, since reading their local file system is a big security issue.