As others have pointed out, for security reasons you cannot access the client's hard drive without some explicit action on their part (that's standard HTML/Javascript). You may want to rethink your architecture. From the scenario you describe below it almost sounds like you can solve your problem with a simple cookie. That would certainly be more transparent than requiring users to have a diskette in their A drive.
-----Original Message----- From: JAIME HOI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 4:23 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: How to read from client's a: drive automatically?? automatically means the user do not need to click on anything, the application page will retrieve the file from client's a: drive. Its actually meant to retrieve password from that file. For some data, we need encryption , so if the file is not found, the user will then not be able to see the encrypted data or save the data. Each time we save the data, we will need to retrieve the password from the file/diskette. Thus it would be best if i can do it automatically otherwise, the user will need to click on the "Browse" to choose the file EACH TIME he/she needs to view or save the securied data. OR does anyone know of a better way of handling it? FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
