No a Servlet can not access the hard disk of the client computer because the servlet is running on the server. The only was for any Server side mechanism to access information on a local client hard drive is to send the client some code that the client will run (such as a signed applet), which will read the needed data from the client hard drive and send it back to the server.
--Monte Glenn Gardner On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Anoop Kumar V wrote: > no.. an applet cannot and should not be allowed to access the hard disk.. in > order to prevent any malicious attempts.. > To answer the question, yes, a servlet can very well access the hard disk. > > regards, > Anoop > > -----Original Message----- > From: S Srinivas Nayak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Can a Servlet... > > > no may be an applet can do that for u > ----- Original Message ----- > From: priya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:27 PM > Subject: Can a Servlet... > > > > Can a servlet access the hard disk of the client machine ... ??? > > > > Regards, > > Priya > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the > body > > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
