[TriLUG] putting files to a server with a browser

Dan Monjar dan at daijin.nulluser.com
Mon May 3 14:02:24 EDT 2004


--On Monday, May 03, 2004 01:57:59 PM -0400 "Aaron S. Joyner" 
<aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:

> DISCLAIMER: I did not review these scripts at all.  They are the results
> of 30 seconds of googling.  Don't hold anyone but yourself responsible if
> they cause the world to end.  You should not drop scripts into place on
> your server unless you have _at_least_ a rudimentary understanding of how
> they work.  Take the few minutes to read the articles and understand
> what's going on with those scripts.  Even if you don't use that knowledge
> to do a cursory audit of the script for security reasons, you're
> orders-of-magnitude more likely to get them working "as intended" if you
> understand the basic principles.
>
> Hope that helps!
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
>
> Turnpike Man wrote:
>
>> there is an HTML tag <input type="file"> if I recall correclty that you
>> can use in a web based form... from there, what and how you deal with it
>> depends on what scripting language(s) you are using... PHP, JAVA/JSP,
>> Perl, etc.
>>
>> laters,
>> David
>>


Thanks to Aaron and David!... I'll look at the Perl stuff first...
-- 
Dan Monjar



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