Re: "Hotmail" like browsing local machine and sending attach
Jay J (3pound@iname.com)
Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:10:11 -0500
Greetings Nathan..
I've never used Hotmail, but if CGI file-uploading is what you're looking
for try this:
perldoc CGI | grep -i -B 3 -A 10 uploaded_file
I believe Lincoln Stein has a relavant page also, but I forget the URL..
-Jay J
----- 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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