How to Send Files from my Computer
There is a web site I went to where I click a 'Browse' button, and it scans my hard drive, where I find my resume and click a button and its sent to them.
I need to do that on my web site, is there a script or way I can do that for free. I just have a regular unix server.
Any advise would be helpful.
thanks,
The Webmistress posted this at 13:30 — 16th August 2003.
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Here's a tutorial showing you how to do exactly that within a form
Vincent Puglia posted this at 15:43 — 16th August 2003.
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Hi
if you have trouble understanding htmlGoodies' tutorial:
<input type='file'...>'is the basics. Note though, you cannot limit the size and type of the file being uploaded (at least not with any certainty), so some people could conceivably mess with your domain space.
Hi Julia
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mairving posted this at 17:05 — 16th August 2003.
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Be careful on using that. You would be much better off using PHP. With it you could only allow files of a certain type and of a certain size. With that you would have to give full permission to your upload directory to all users chmod 777. Doing so would make it pretty easy for someone to upload scripts or any other things that they want to your server. Even with PHP, it is not usually a good idea to allow unknown users to upload files.
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