Searching for File existence on client side..

[SrkrReds]

Hi..

We have an application where a user types a file name with full path on any of our servers in our network or browses to it and selects it and this information(file name & file path) is saved in the database.

Currently, user browses or enters a valid file and path and our validation code still fails and displays file not found message. How do we do this on client side?

I hope i made my problem clear.

thanx in advance.

 

[EdwardMartinIII]

You will find it very difficult for JavaScript on the client side to locate a predetermined file. Attempts to do this compete with JavaScript's security restrictions.

Other client-side technologies may allow this.

You can however, ask the User on the client side to locate a file using the "file" type of input control. This guarantees that the file exists, or else they can't choose it!

Cheers,


Edward

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