New to Ajax, need suggestion.

[Rcartwright]

I am very new to web development and I need a push in the right direction here. This is my problem; I am making a web page that will be used privately by two people. I need to find a way to go to an FTP site that can only be accessed by web browser (that is what IT told me) and download a file that has a constant name "prevhour.log" and save this file to a directory so that it can be read (not sure how, my boss is doing that end) and the data will be dumped, and this data will be extrapolated into a gas gauge style dashboard. I need some way of this to be done as automated as possible. Thank you for your time.

Rick

[Philip M]

Do please read the posting guidelines regarding silly thread titles. The thread title is supposed to help people who have a similar problem in future. Yours is useless for this purpose. You can (and should) edit it to make it more meaningful.


The answer to your enquiry is AJAX. JavaScript is purely a client-side language, and unless used with an Ajax call has no capability to read from or write to a file (except a cookie), communicate with the server, access a database, the client's operating system or the Windows registry, or alter the default behaviour of the browser.

In IE only it is possible in certain circumstances to use ActiveX objects to access the directory and read files. This is not recommended for a variety of reasons.






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[Rcartwright]

Now that I know what it is called and where to go (that direction stuff that I was asking for) I will change it, thank you.