send attachment from client machine

[dvsmas]

Can anyone please help me with this:
I need to send an attachment located on the client machine. I know how to do this through java mail API if the attachments are located on the server. Basically I would like to know if there is any javascript or any java classes available.

Thanks in advance

 

[KevinAr18]

Javascript cannot access files on the users computer.

You could use a cgi script on your server to get a file from the user and process it on your server. This would require knowledge of something like perl or php.

In order to send a file to a cgi script, you need to make a form with a "file" field.

Here's a sample file field:
<input type=&quot;file&quot; name=&quot;file&quot; size=30>

You could use javascript to fill in that file field with the name of the file if that's what you need, but you gotta use a special trick to get around the security.