Hi,

I hope you guys can help me out.

Here's what I want to do.
I've got a number of files on my webserver and want to put these files into different directories on the clients machine. Is there a (simple) way of doing this within asp?

Thanks in advance for any kind of answer...

Greetings

Serge

There is no direct way with HTML/ASP/JS etc that you can force a user to install something in a given location, the best you can do is to make a recommendation to them.

The only way to do it would be to download a component onto the local machine, which is then run outside the browser which would drop the files in the correct place. This is however very risky as many people run different systems (Win 9x, NT, 2K, XP, Linux, Mac etc) so this becomes quite hard to code for all.

I agree with Greg about the ASP route.

Maybe you could use a zip file? You can include the directory info when you create the zip. browsers know what to do with zip files, so you could either give them the url of the zip file, or use ASP to serve up a zip file. Either way the client is going to have to consent to the file transfer.

Thanks guys.
I was afraid these answers would come up. I'm thinking about using FTP, which is the next most obvious, since I cannot let the client have any input in the placement of these files.

Anyway, thanks again...

Serge

Why is it that importent where the client put your files?

Regards - Jon