Get info on client file

[john42]

I´ve made a program and now i would like the users of the program to be able to download updates from my website. I want the user to show where the EXE-file on their computer is, so i can check version number, size and name of the file.

Can i do this without some kind of component?

I´ve made this so far :

<FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="downloadFile.asp">
<INPUT TYPE=FILE NAME="FileName" size="20"><BR>
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit" NAME="upfile">
</FORM>

Right now i´m looking in the forum, but i haven´t found anything good yet

[pranoy]

Q1. Do you want to upload the file from client to server first? It appears so from your code.

You can read the file on client using ActiveX component "Scripting.FileSystemObject". You can use Javascript or vbscript to create this object on the client. The only catch in this method is that the security setting of the browser should allow the running of ActiveX scripts on the client.

[john42]

Q1. Do you want to upload the file from client to server first? It appears so from your code.

You can read the file on client using ActiveX component "Scripting.FileSystemObject". You can use Javascript or vbscript to create this object on the client. The only catch in this method is that the security setting of the browser should allow the running of ActiveX scripts on the client.

If i don´t have to, i´d rather not upload the file to the server. Do i need to install an ActiveX component on the server to do this?

[pranoy]

You dont need to install this ActiveX component, it already exists. But if you want to invoke ActiveX on the client PC through browser, then the security settings in the browser of the client setting should be set to allow the execution of ActiveX scripts.

[john42]

You dont need to install this ActiveX component, it already exists. But if you want to invoke ActiveX on the client PC through browser, then the security settings in the browser of the client setting should be set to allow the execution of ActiveX scripts.

Ok, thanks for the help