RE: [PHP] Web based FTP client
Hi Mark, I am trying to build or find a web FTP client. I want it to look like a windows based FTP client a list box on one site for the user's file system and a list box on the other for the ftp server. A couple of iframes side by side should let you do that. The biggest problem I can see you hitting is reading the contents of the user's hard drive... usually this is impossible, for good reasons. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Web based FTP client
Reading the users hard drive is impossible from php, but it's really easy with Java. -Original Message- From: Jon Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Web based FTP client Hi Mark, I am trying to build or find a web FTP client. I want it to look like a windows based FTP client a list box on one site for the user's file system and a list box on the other for the ftp server. A couple of iframes side by side should let you do that. The biggest problem I can see you hitting is reading the contents of the user's hard drive... usually this is impossible, for good reasons. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Web based FTP client
Do you mean use a Java Applet or JavaScript. I know how to browse the user's file system using JavaScript or VBScript if I use the ActiveX object FileSystemObject but then the site will only work on IE. I don't like build sites that only work for one browser. But even if I create a page that lets the user browse their own computer and the FTP Server using a combo of JavaScript, PHP and HTML frames. I still don't know how to ftp right from the client side browser without using the INPUT tag file and upload, not ftp. Mark. _ Mark McCulligh, Application Developer / Analyst Sykes Canada Corporation www.SykesCanada.com (888)225-6824 ex. 3262 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: David Buerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: php.general To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:24 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Web based FTP client Reading the users hard drive is impossible from php, but it's really easy with Java. -Original Message- From: Jon Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Web based FTP client Hi Mark, I am trying to build or find a web FTP client. I want it to look like a windows based FTP client a list box on one site for the user's file system and a list box on the other for the ftp server. A couple of iframes side by side should let you do that. The biggest problem I can see you hitting is reading the contents of the user's hard drive... usually this is impossible, for good reasons. Cheers Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Web based FTP client
Mark McCulligh wrote: I know how to browse the user's file system using JavaScript or VBScript if I use the ActiveX object FileSystemObject but then the site will only work Sounds like a massive security breach. Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Web based FTP client
no more of a security breach than any other ftp client a user would make the CHOICE to use. Hey, it's our responsibility as developers to make things as secure as possible...but only to the point that we continue to help meet the needs of our clients. When we stop meeting the needs because of our obsession with security we've failed. -Original Message- From: Chris Hewitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:11 AM To: Mark McCulligh Cc: David Buerer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Web based FTP client Mark McCulligh wrote: I know how to browse the user's file system using JavaScript or VBScript if I use the ActiveX object FileSystemObject but then the site will only work Sounds like a massive security breach. Chris
Re: [PHP] Web based FTP client
on 07/09/02 12:48 AM, Jon Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A couple of iframes side by side should let you do that. The biggest problem I can see you hitting is reading the contents of the user's hard drive... usually this is impossible, for good reasons. I *think* that's what he was asking about. Justin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
