I'm staggered to find you are saying the only solution
under Netscape is to create an object that uses Corba?
Surely this is not the way forward. Java must be able to solve
the problem, or why is Java around? Is there an aliance
between Sun and Netscape for NS6.01 or is
this just marketing hype?
What should be a simple task is turning into a nightmare.
Mark
"Mitchell Stoltz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Unfortunately, you can't yet do this with Java in Netscape 6. I think
> you can run a signed applet, but signed applets can't communicate with
> JavaScript yet. An alternative is to write a signed JavaScript that uses
> XPConnect to access the local file system. Basically, you can create an
> nsIFile object in JavaScript and use that to read from a file.
> http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/index.html
> gives some information about XPConnect.
>
> In order to use XPConnect, you have to sign your script and loading it
> using a URL of the jsr:http:// syntax. There's details on this in
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/jssec.html. That
> document's a little out of date and has some errors, my apologies for
> that but I haven't had time to update it. Also, I don't think signed
> scripts work in NS6.01 for the Mac (Windows and Linux/Unix should work
> fine).
>
> If you want to give XPConnect a try, let me know if you run into any
> problems.
> -Mitch
>
> Mark A Gregory wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to be able to read six characters from a file on a client
> > computer using Netscape 6 and return the string to a javascript for
> > processing client side in an ASP page.
> >
> > Please tell me how to do this,
> > thank you
> > mark
>
