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Re: Remote File Access
by William G. Davis (Friar) on Oct 27, 2003 at 03:05 UTC

    What does any of this have to do with Perl? Perhaps you should try reading this, this, and the rest of the stuff in the Information nodelet before creating anymore new nodes.

Re: Remote File Access
by jacques (Priest) on Oct 27, 2003 at 03:11 UTC
    No, http is static. What you want can be accomplished through Java applets and other ways, but not through web pages.

    Your question might be deleted before I click the submit button, because you said PHP, instead of Perl. Please keep in mind that this is a Perl monastery.

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Re: Remote File Access
by aquarium (Curate) on Oct 27, 2003 at 03:03 UTC
    What your program does: eg. get content from local disk or get content from a machine miles away, has nothing to do with the browser...as long as the web server displays output before timeout (about 90 secs) then all is fine. the only issue there is how is the webserver going to get the data from the remote machine (your home pc) Unless you have a static IP address or can inform your webserver every time your ip address changes, and your isp doesn't block access from internet to your pc, then you should be ok.