If I want to read a local file from a webplayer app, the only way I see is to have the user upload the file to my site with his browser( from a page I setup) and then read the file from the server with the web player, Because of security sandbox design is this true? Or is there a particular directory or some other way to read a file directly from a local machine with a webplayer App?
cheers,
Grant
That’s correct. This is the only way to do it (you can identify the user’s data by a login and/or by a cookie).
If there’s very little data you can of course just store it right in a cookie, no need to hit the server then.
Not to say that this isn’t a good idea for functionality, but it’s more work than one would think to make it work on all platforms (don’t even mention Vista and it’s security model).
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