Is defaulting upload directory possible?

[marms]

I have built a shopping cart admin for a client difficult client. He is complaining that when he clicks the "Browse..." in the enctype="multipart/form-data" file upload form that he has to search through his local drive for the image file to upload. He is trying to require me to default the dialog to go right to his image directory. Is this even possible?!?! Is there some client side script to tell IE what directory to start in?

Thanks

[planetsim]

Not that im aware of.

[Ceril]

Originally posted by marms
I have built a shopping cart admin for a client difficult client. He is complaining that when he clicks the "Browse..." in the enctype="multipart/form-data" file upload form that he has to search through his local drive for the image file to upload. He is trying to require me to default the dialog to go right to his image directory. Is this even possible?!?! Is there some client side script to tell IE what directory to start in?

Thanks

A quick glance with google(The best friend on the web) reveals that by setting value="c:\images\" should be possible, but apparently many browsers does not handle this due to security reasons such as:
You specify value to point to a file common on many users harddrives and it is automaticly uploaded :-(
However, opera apparently support this by having some additonal security measures, first time in my opinion opera might be worth having if its true

[planetsim]

Pitty that bit of code assumes the world uses Windows.. There is no defianent way that works correctly. Opera can be a good browser yes its recent browser IMO kills IE hands down but that doesnt require much effort.