I want to write into a plain text file using JavaScript (client side), how i can do that? Any idea could be good, but a sample could be better. grettings :D
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:28 -0700, GGC wrote:> I want to write into a plain text file using JavaScript (client side),Javascripts do not get access to the local file system. Security. Send the data to the server and write the file there. Google ''javascript http post'' for explanation / code. HTH, Bill
You could do this using an ActiveX object, I think.
So something like:
var path = "C:\dir\file.txt"
var filesystemobject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject
var file = filesystemobject.CreateTextFile(path, true)
// your file manipulations
file.Close()
You might want to look into ActiveXObjects though. I think most
systems won''t allow you to write to a local path as Bill suggests.
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:48 -0700, jhaagmans wrote:> You could do this using an ActiveX object, I think.This is a Ruby on Rails forum. Is there a way to use ActiveX objects in RoR? Thanks, Bill
bill walton wrote:> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:48 -0700, jhaagmans wrote: >> You could do this using an ActiveX object, I think. > > This is a Ruby on Rails forum. Is there a way to use ActiveX objects in > RoR?There would almost have to be -- my understanding is that they can be embedded in Web pages rather like Flash...speaking of which, I have the impression that Flash gets more access to the filesystem than JS, so that might be worth investigating. But ActiveX is probably a bad idea in any case. It limits your audience to IE on Windows, and I understand there are serious security issues with it (as if Windows didn''t already have enough security holes).> > Thanks, > BillBest, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
jhaagmans wrote:> You could do this using an ActiveX object, I think.Which is exactly why ActiveX has been one of the most popular attack vectors for hacking in the history of computing. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.