Uploading files to the server hard disk using plain ASP
2767Uploading files to the server hard disk using plain ASPhttp://stardeveloper.com/articles/042501-1.shtmlThis article is number three in a series of articles I wrote about uploading and displaying binary data with ASP. The first article was about Uploading binary data to the database, second was on Displaying binary data from the database and the third one ( this one ) is going to be on 'Uploading files to the server hard diskASP > Tips and Tutorials > File ManipulationOct 10, 2006
The File Access Component of ASP allows you to manipulate files on your server using ASP code. The first thing you should understand is what objects are available, and what their properties are. They are Drive, File, FileSystem, and Folder. There is also a Drives collection, a Files collection, and a Folders collection. Finally, the Textstream object is useful for moving data to and from files. Current specs for these objects are available from Microsoft's web site; you can click here to see a pop-up window with a relatively complete listing of the objects and their properties and methods.
Sometimes you need to copy files to another folder. First you should require to use FSO (File System Object.) CopyFile method of FSO is the simplest way to copy the files. Following sample code will copy some files to another folder.
This tutorial is aimed to show you how it is possible to retrieve a remote file via ASP and FTP without using a 3rd-party component. Windows plateform usually come with FTP.exe which is located in folder : C:WINNTsystem32. This utility can be drive from dos command line in order to connect to a FTP server,browse a FTP Directory, download and put file in the FTP site.
This short example will allow you to dynamically create "static" html documents from an Access data on your web server using Active Server Pages. Basically after reading the contents of the db, instead of writing output to the browser it is written to the server.
Setting up a simple file downloading system with VBScript and ASP is no sweat. This system can be tested by downloading a classic ASP app
The primary use for a system like this is to allow downloading of any TEXT based file that would normally be served via a client's browser and be unable to be downloaded. This system works great when setting up downloads for files with the following extensions: *.txt, *.htm, *.html or *.asp . This system won't work to serve binary files such as images.
A secondary use is to allow download access to directories outside the public server space or a hidden directory within the website. This system can also be used in conjunction with the fileupload class to let users
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