I need to obtain the full file path to a file on the client machine. I don't need the actual file data I just need the user to select the file from their browser (in some GUI familiar way) so I can store it as text.
That's all. If I need to upload the file data to obtain is so be it but that path is critical as part of their settings.
This is a limited audience web app so some prerequisites may be forced down on the user.
<input type="file"/> has varying degrees of security implementations between Chrome, FF and IE so outside of writing browser extensions for the major browsers --- >
does anyone know of anything cross-browser compatible (anything at all no matter how far-fetched it may seem) that accomplishes getting the actual, real client side directory structure full file path to an http server request from a browser?
(The project is in ASP.NET but that is not critical: I can include applets or flash files or silverlight)
