How To Open Local File From Webpage
Sep 4, 2008
I have web page where user can upload file. He can select which file to upload with standard HTML input of type file. I want to add this feature: when user select some file (e.g. picture, pdf etc.) in file select dialog, I want to add link to selected local file. When user click on it browser(maybe associated application) should open local file so user can review what he selected. I was experimenting with urls with "file" protocol but it works only with html file located on local computer not for one on web server. I found that this is because of security restriction in browsers.
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Apr 2, 2008
my file is located at c:AdminFiles.xml
i tried the following ways
window.open("c:/AdminFiles.xml",'HeavyXml');
window.open("c:AdminFiles.xml",'HeavyXml');
window.open("c:\AdminFiles.xml",'HeavyXml');
in the above i'm getting the following error: "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (c) isnt associated with any program"
window.open("file:///c:\AdminFiles.xml",'HeavyXml');
the last attempt give to respond at all...
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Jul 9, 2009
Is it possible to open a local file from a web browser, ideally firefox?
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Mar 21, 2006
Can anyone tell me how to use XMLHTTPRequest or MS ActivcXObject open a
local file?
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Mar 23, 2011
How do you open a local html file in the parent window (asp.net)?
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Oct 17, 2011
I have text area that includes the full path for a local file on our company network. The files are usually excel sheets or docs. How can I have it so when they clicks the file it opens the local file?
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Dec 1, 2010
I need to be able to search through an xml located on my local machine with an html page. Here's the thing: this whole system (html files, xml file) will always be on my local machine. Because it's a class project it won't be on a server. So here's the scenario: I navigate to where my files are located (say C:) and I double click my index.html page and this page opens in my browser and from this page I need to be able to search my xml file which is at the same location. I've tried xmlhttprequest and it won't open the xml file I'm guessing because I don't need an http request.
Here's what I have so far:
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
} else {
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
} xmlhttp.open("GET","C:MovieDB.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send(); xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;
function searchDB() {
if(!xmlDoc){
alert("error")
} var keyword = $('#txtBox').val();
var searchVal = $('#basicCategory :selected').text();
var allitems = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("Movie");
for(var i=0;i<allitems.length;i++){
alert(allitems[i].getElementsByTagName(searchVal[0].
childNodes[0].nodeValue);
} }
The code doesn't make it past the xmlhttp.send() line.
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Aug 15, 2010
I have a photo editing business with many people working in Photoshop. I am currently developing a web based application (joblist) using Javascript and PHP which should allow the photoshop designers to browse and open files/images directly from joblist/web browser into photoshop. The reason I want this instead of browsing folder is that I have a database where I store who worked on which file, when and how long it took. The concept is that, designers will select a file and click on start, as soon as they click on start the original file will open in Photoshop and there will be an entry into database (using PHP).
Once they finish the task they will close the file and click on Finish button. My joblist application will be published in a local server and the file will be open on a local network, so when they save the file it will be saved where the source file is located in (local server). The application should work in both PC and Mac. How to write the code (PHP or Javascript) which can open the file from browser (local server) directly into desktop application e.g. PHotoshop or Illustrator?
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Feb 9, 2007
I'd like a way to run a local program on the users system from a webpage.
Obviously this is generally a VERY BAD IDEA (format c: -y anyone?) but in this case it is internal and only a few people will be doing it, so the website can be put into any relevant "trusted" containers in the browser.
Basically what I want is a link like this:
<a href=.....>123.456.12.32</a>
and when the user clicks on the link it opens up their local copy of vnc and attempts to vnc to the IP address supplied.
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Feb 10, 2010
what to do to retain values of a webpage even after saving the webpage on the local disk? i have developed my webpages in dreamweaver cs4 also my webpages are using opera 10.10 as default browser and one more thing i cant migrate it to any other browser.
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Dec 24, 2011
If I switch the w3schools' file with the same local file, it will not work with firefox.Does anybody know why the local file is not displayed correctly?
~/linux/test/jQuery/ajax$ cat main1.html
<html>
<head>
[code]....
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May 18, 2009
I have a .js file, we want to make it to load a html file right next to it, both files are on client system. I couldn't find any such examples and some posts talked about JavaScript security issues, I wonder if it is related to what I want.
Someone said .js file is not really JaveScript file, though Microsoft named it 'JavaScript'.
note that I am trying to "call" .html file from the .js file, not embed html code in .js.
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Jan 1, 2011
I am looking for a way to select a file from a list and load it into a webpage. The page and the files are stored on a sd-card for off-line usage, I know that listing files remote dynamicly needs a scripting engine but since the sd-card is on the client side that is not possible, but I can make a list of those files when creating them.
It is intended for a datalogger on a tractor-puller, I create csv files with a bash script on the logger and for off-line viewing I use a javascript charting engine which loads the csv file, the files have the creation date as filename and I can make (and maintain) a list of files when creating them. The plan is that the we can select another data set (run) from within the browser and show that one. I have setup an example at [URL]
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Jul 23, 2010
I tried to add links to open local xml files in browser in a dynamic table cells. I need help. I tried all ways but I think I miss something.I can open them without table just by document.write(xmlfile location).
function showResultsTable(searched, srchedname) {
// get the reference for the body
var mybody = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];
[code]....
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Sep 8, 2011
if its possible to read xml files locally from an html page using javascript without using any local server?
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Jul 20, 2005
javascript:
can I write to a local .txt File
as exaple:
open() ....writel(() ...close()..... ....save as ... c: est.txt
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Feb 20, 2009
is it possible to load xml from local file system using ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM") ?
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Sep 3, 2009
Is there a way to create a new file with JavaScript. I have a script on a local drive and I need to create a file (XML) that i can then read off.Is this possible?
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May 11, 2009
Just a sanity check.Can the src URL for the <script> tag be a local file ala:<script src="file:///c:/myScript.js">I'm making an IE BHO to insert a script into webpages.I've got it working for scripts with regular remote URL's (http://etc)
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Mar 1, 2011
I'm working on some javascript to my own use, where I want to create a link to a local file on my computer, but it won't allow me to do that. I will only allow me to link to a website. Is it possible in any way to link to a local file on my computer?
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Sep 8, 2010
I have set of html pages that are installed locally on machine. I want to make ajax call to local files. In Firefox everything works fine. IE is able to load html pages through ajax call but not able to load xml document.
Chrome doesn't support ajax call locally...and I don't care about it. I need it to work on IE & firefox.
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Apr 22, 2010
I have web application and i need functionality like client have certain pdf file on his/her local system. I want to use html/javascrpit to print these pdf files without opening.
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Jan 11, 2007
For a project I am working on, I need to retrieve links from html
documents. The easy part is to obtain 'plain' links like <A
HREF="http://site/path/document">, but when those links are
javascript'ized, the only robust solution needs to load the javascript
and dom document representation in the same way that browsers do. For
example, links in the form:
<A HREF="javascript:function_declared_before("arguments"));>
First I though that using spidermonkey (the mozilla javascript
interpreter) should be enough, but in that case, I dont have the
document structure elements (like document, window, document.history,
document.form.element, etc), so I tried parsing the document using a
library to build a tree representation of it, but that leads me to the
same problem again, that is, I have to represent all tree nodes as
javascript entities.
Anybody here have worked on a similar problem? What tools do you
think I should take a look?
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Jun 7, 2010
I'm busy making a project which needs to be ran locally. It has to work on Firefox only.
I've ran into the problem I can't load local XML files from another directory then the html file is located.
When I try loading XML trough an ajax request with the url "content.xml" everything works fine. As soon as I want the XML to be loaded from another folder, e.g. "../../../content.xml" it doesnt enter my success function.
$.ajax({
cache: "false",
type: "GET",
url: "../../../content.xml?r=" + Math.random(),
[Code]....
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Dec 17, 2009
I am working on a project involving the Google Maps api. I have an application that spits out a text file with lat/lng coordinates plus some other info. I'm trying to figure out how to get the data from the local text file into a javascript array that can then be used by the Google Map api to create the map.
Any suggestions on how to go about doing this? I'm fairly certain that there is not a way to do it just with Javascript, but I thought I would ask. If not, any suggestions on how to do it, perhaps with xmlhttprequest and a PHP script? I don't need the text file to actually be saved on the web server, but if that's the only option then I can go that route.
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Jul 27, 2011
I have a javascript (HTML internal), which fetches and executes a file in another web address... but I do not want it to do that, i want this script to execute is function directly from my local disk (file location).
Here is the script;
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<div style="WIDTH: 984px; HEIGHT: 443px" >
[Code]....
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