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Posted by Eric on 05/19/06 19:05
Martin Jay wrote:
> In message <fa6dnfXtqdyC1ffZ4p2dnA@comcast.com>, Eric <nospam@email.com>
> writes
>>Is it possible to check for existence of a file from a web page using
>>javascript? I am trying to come up with a routine that i can call from the
>>rest of my javascript code that will check if a particular file exists on
>>disk at the server. ie bool FileExists("http://myServer.com/File.gif");
>>Any ideas on how to do this?
>
> I cannot think of a way to achieve this.
>
> You could, however, include a list of filenames in your Javascript, and
> then simply check it to see whether a particular file exists.
>
> There are some problems, though:
>
> you may not wish to give visitors a list of all the files;
>
> the list may be rather long;
>
> and it might be a pain keeping the list up-to-date. :(
>
> Does your host offer server side scripting, such as PHP or Perl? That's
> probably the best solution.
Yes, but HOW? do you determine a file is there? I'm not looking for unknown
files, I'm looking for a very specific filename.
Eric
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