Ummm...Help?

I'm sorry to post this here, and I'm sure it'll end up getting moved, but I'm not sure where to. Probably javascript, but it involves more than javascript. I need some method for opening a text file located on the server, reading all the contents and storing them in a string in javascript. As I understand it javascript has no file access capabilities, so there needs to be some other language involved somehow. I don't know or care what the other language is, but I need it to be supported by both IE and Netscape (sorry, no vbscript) and it can't be ASP, the server does not support ASP.

Sounds like a toughy, think it's possible?

Tis possible but tis hard!!

I have seen it done using Java and Javascript search google and you might find somthing!