Is it possible to read files from visitor ?

[Reiners]

Hello community!
I wanted to ask if it is possible to read out the content of a textfile from a visitor of my site ... I've tried

$fp = fopen('C:\\Programme\\syscOn\\netstat.txt', 'r');

but of course this only reads out the netstat.txt on my server, not from the client.

$fp = fopen('file:////c://Programme//syscOn//netstat.txt', 'r');

didn't worked as well ... 🙁

I just thought it must be possible, because some "1337-pages" can even read out your harddisk-content to an iframe .... :rolleyes:

Thanks for any ideas or codes 🙂

[bpat1434]

PHP is a server-side language. It can't intrude on the users computer. JavaScript on the other hand has the possibility to do this; however, with internet security the way it is, the odds of it happening are slim.

The "1337" pages you speak of, most likely use Javascript to do it (or some exploit in an ActiveX control).