lol... the login and cookies is already made and there is no problem in that....

what I am after is a way to access a file on a users pc that holds config setttings or what not and to use them in my scripts...

this file or all files for that matter is 'not unknown' by the users at all.. they will be the ones putting them there themselfs... there is nothing shady about this at all... the installer I am talking about I might make is a user executed one and they know what they will be putting it on there system... none of the files it will install are executable files that get put on thier pc unless this is the only way to do this where my scripts could read from it.. and they would be informed of this anyhow... then I would need to know where to find that info...lol

with IE you can create a dir on your pc and a websites graphics can be pulled from that location on the pc by using the location of the files in the HTML or perl generated HTML with the html IMG SRC tags as long as those images are there. IMG SRC=C:\TEST_DIR\THE_IMAGE.jpg
this makes for no loading time at all as the files are on the users pc already
I have used this method before with all success (except on netscape it wont work at all)

I am wanting to access a file of settings (not an image) and take them settings and have my scripts work with the file on the users pc... I will only read it from my scripts and not update it.. they will do that part themselfs
I am pretty sure a java applet would have to be used to do this but I am at a loss of where to even find any info like that...lol

The reason I stated to another about an online game needing this function is to limit that only 1 player name uses one pc to play the game and keep from one person having ten accounts.. yes they could still use another pc to create another player name etc but the purpose still worked as he then will only have 2 accounts or as many as he has pc's to use and NOT 10 on one pc

I need a way to verify the files are there before the html pages are generated or things will be X'ed out as well as holding custom values for these images and the way my scripts will handle them.

Thanks for your reply and if anyone can steer my in the right direction of where to go to do something like this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !!

In reply to Re^2: interaction or verify with users pc by Evilzz
in thread interaction or verify with users pc by Evilzz

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