Date: 11/14/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: browser, java, security

Hello,

For our company's project, we need to be able to access the local file tree of the client through the browser (with their permission, of course). I know it could be done in Java applet, in fact Facebook did it pretty well with their photo uploading tool. However, my boss keeps mentioning some complications when dealing with security issues in Java applet, and (no matter if he's right or not), asked me to find out of other ways it can be done. We only care about IE, so maybe an ActiveX component? It would be best if the solution could be written using VB.NET, since that's how the rest of the project is made.

I'd appreciate any help guys,

Max.

P.S. There is a perfectly logical reason we only care about IE, so don't pick on that part. :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/370464.html