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In comp.lang.javascript message <4f6ee117$0$12526$ba4acef3@reader.news.o
range.fr>, Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:10:47, SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanad
oo.fr.invalid> posted:

>Le 25/03/12 09:29, naveen raj a écrit :
>> how to read from a file in the script ?
>
>not possible

I do it, literally almost every day.  Shortly after 18:00 LCT for one
reason, and irregularly for others.

With a browser, an HTML or TXT file (and maybe other types) from the
same domain (including the local disc (except in Chrome (unless they've
recently fixed it))) into an iframe element and its content can then be
accessed.  An HTML file just adds to the DOM tree as a branch; a TXT
file as a string.

  // Ifr is a reference to the iframe:
  FILE = Ifr.contentDocument.body
  FILE = FILE.textContent || FILE.innerText // IE8 needs latter
  // FILE is now a string.

This newsgroup is not solely for Web authoring or using browsers like
Firefox.  It also covers MS IE, in which a .HTA file can access the
local disc in full with VBscript or JScript, with a Web-like display.
It also covers Windows Scripting Host, in which a script can access the
local disc in full with VBscript or JScript, with a Command Prompt
display.  It also covers anything that may be equivalent in Mac, UNIX,
or other non-Windows systems.

But, in a Web page, one cannot read the innards of anything other than
same-domain material - AFAIK, it's not allowed and should not be
possible.

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javascript naveen raj <naveenrajp.erode@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 00:29 -0700
  Re: javascript SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-25 11:10 +0200
    Re: javascript "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2012-03-25 16:00 +0000
    Re: javascript Dr J R Stockton <reply1213@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-26 20:44 +0100
  Re: javascript Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 07:03 -0700

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