Well to do it as a bookmark where they just go to it and bam, it's all
there, u can make the page an autosubmiting form with javascript. As in as
soon as they load the page, the javascript submits the form containing the
path to the file. U can hide the guts underneath a div layer and have the
It's a standard html form item.
input type=file value=c:\windows\statefile.txt iirc
Then the user hits submit to see the available packages. U can use a
javascript to keep users from changing the path.
At 01:38 PM 2/18/05 +, steve silvers wrote:
Could you please elaborate a bit on what the
Right now I have a static html page that has software update links on it.
This is delivered from our server, and is used by many notebook users on the
road.
Is it possible that when they come to my software update page (.html) that a
script can read a config or xml file on there local system?
Create an html form that uploads a state file from their computer to the
server. The server would analyze the state file and push back some
appropriate links and info. Each time a patch was installed, it would
update the state file.
At 08:13 PM 2/17/05 +, steve silvers wrote:
Is it possible
Cookies?
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Create an html form that uploads a state
You can't keep system state information in a cookie. The cookie has to be
set either by the server or a javascript. Getting an application or patch
to update a cookie would be a real pain if even possible. Also there is the
fact that the browser can blow away any or all cookies at whim. This
When I access
some of the server\switch through the following code I am getting
a message on the console Press ENTER to start. Since not all
servers give this message, I am trying (without success so far) to capture this
message, check if it include a word of ENTER and then send enter key
