Attachments clarification

[sweetleaf]

Hi

I wrote a program that allows a user to select a document then attach it to an email. When the document is selected the user clicks another button "Attach" which uses the file system object to copy it to the nt server which i am emailing from.

A colleauge told me that i was doing this all wrong and that the file needed to be "uploaded" to that server and not just copied there. I am confuse since it seems to work just fine the way it is. Can someone please clarify this to me, I'd really appreciate it.


thanks,

 

[giahan]

You have to upload the file on the server before it can be attach using the "Attach Button".
There is a site that show you how to do it

http://www.asp101.com/articles/jacob/scriptupload.asp

Hope this helps
GH

 

[sweetleaf]

thanks giahan,

Yeah thats what I've read and heard. However, my question still stands - why "upload" a file to another server when you can just "copy" or "move" it there using FSO?

Thanks,

 

[giahan]

b/c your code compile on the server where you load your web. When you have the email attach, it only goes to the server and find the file on the server, it can't go to the client PC.
Hope this answers ur question.
GH