>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Is there any way for ASP to use the DOM or any other client-side functions to read a file on the client (i.e. a text file or something)?
>>>
>>>I'm pretty sure this is not possible (I would have to run a program which resides on the client and upload it to the web server or something).
>>>
>>>Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>>-JT
>>
>>If they are using IE then the answer is yes, if they will let you. You would have to use VB script on the client side to do it.
>
>Can you point me towards any articles/examples of this?
>
>Thanks Jeff!
>
>-JT

Hi Jeff,

Ironically, a client just asked us to do this very thing. You can do with client side script in IE with VB or JavaScript. Note that it will pop up a message box about decurity violation, but so long as the user agrees, everything will work fine.

Check http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/default.htm, and go into the documentation link under VBScript, then into FileSystemObject's User Guide, and then click on the "Working with files" link. Lots of code samples in both VBScript and JScript there.