Browse File System without Uploading

[Peppi]

Hi,

I need to allow a user to browse their file system and select a file. It is not necessary to upload the file. I just need to extract and save the path and filename of the selected file.

If I use the input tag with a type of "file", then as soon as I postback to the server, the file is automatically uploaded. I don't want this to happen as files can be quite large.

How can I get around this without ActiveX?

Thx.

 

[jmeckley]

what exactly are you trying to do? you should not need to browse the users local file system if you are not uploading a file.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.