Re: "Hotmail" like browsing local machine and sending attach
dethwolf (dethwolf@airmail.net)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 01:28:53 -0500
No magic here... In fact it's pretty much html that does this trick. It's
thanks to the multi-part form.
(Made very easy if you use Stein's CGI.pm)
A good article to read to show you how to use this and use it well check
out:
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/08/14/perl/index.html
As far as LWP goes.. you could perhaps come up with some obfuscated file
system or something...
-Joe Cherveny
----- Original Message -----
From: Nathaniel Good <good@cs.umn.edu>
To: <libwww-perl@ics.uci.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 10:42 PM
Subject: "Hotmail" like browsing local machine and sending attach
> Hello. I was wondering if anyone knew how Hotmail is able to allow users
> to select, attach and send files from their local machines via an html
> interface and cgi scripts. I first thought that this was some sort of
> activex hook, but it works in Netscape as well.
> I can't see how they can force the browser to open a "browse" window from
> a cgi-script. How does the browser "know"? Can LWP be used to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan Good
> good0214@tc.umn.edu
>
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