RE: [PHP] uploading files with just a string c:\temp\whatever.txt
| From: | Jason Murray | Date: | Thu, 15 Feb 2001 04:16:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] uploading files with just a string c:\temp\whatever.txt | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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> > Does anybody know how to upload a file if the only information you
> > have is the string to the location of the file on the clients hard
> > drive. Also, the string was not retrieved using the form method, which
> > I know about. This method can't be used and I need to be able to upload
> > with only the location information.
>
> I wouldn't know how to do this myself, especially since it would help
> greatly in a project I'm working on. Although I'm suspecting it's a
> restriction in the <input type="file"> tag which won't allow this kind
> of behaviour. eg: "c:/windows/passwd.pwl"
>
> of course I could be paranoid
Actually, given your comments and thinking about the original post again,
why does it sound like he's trying to do Something Naughty(tm)? :)
Jason