Reading & Writing to a file on client machine

[Jim]

I have an ASP app where I use the <input type=”file” name=”MyBrowse”> control
in my form. I would like the user to be able to specify a file on their
machine for some purpose. When doing this the user is able to use the browse
dialog to find and select a specific file however, when they submit the form
and the ASP code grabs the file name selected by the user using strFile =
request.form("MyBrowse "), the value in strFile if “C:\MyText.txt” for instance.
The problem is the Web server thinks to look on the local C: drive not the
client’s C: drive where the file exists.

How do I get around this? Thanks.

[Simon]

hi jim,
you need to post the data in binary format. make sure you have this <form
enctype="multipart/form-data"> within the form tag
you may download some sample code here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ml/asp0900.asp
good luck
simon

"Jim" <dropzone12@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I have an ASP app where I use the <input type=”file” name=”MyBrowse”> control
>in my form. I would like the user to be able to specify a file on their
>machine for some purpose. When doing this the user is able to use the browse
>dialog to find and select a specific file however, when they submit the
form
>and the ASP code grabs the file name selected by the user using strFile
=
>request.form("MyBrowse "), the value in strFile if “C:\MyText.txt” for instance.
> The problem is the Web server thinks to look on the local C: drive not
the
>client’s C: drive where the file exists.
>
>How do I get around this? Thanks.
>