> I have a web application which needs to do an http upload (post), but it > needs to upload a scanned image. Strange thing is the user can't scan > into some temporary directory and then upload the image as an ordinary > file. (Don't ask). The requirement is to have the web browser upload > pull an image from the scanner directly. > I didn't imagine that such a thing would be a big problem.. but > apparently it is.. has anybody heard of such a web browser plugin? My > googling has come up with very little... particularly where concerns > open source.
The reason there is very little on this is what you are requesting is a serious security problem. Imagine if a website could request to upload any old file from your computer. That would be a bad thing. If your target browser is IE (you don't mention the client requirements), your only option is to write an ActiveX control. Personally I would try to think of an alternative solution. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
