writing to a local file from a browser

[Anon]

I am trying to write to a local C Drive from a browser. I know this involves security issues etc. but for now is it possible to write to a local machine from the browser and if yes how?? Please let me know even if it involves more than one process to do this.
I can write to a file on the Application Server but I want to do this on the local machine.

Thanks

[Anon]

That requires code that is run client-side. JavaScript lacks filesystem functions, Java applets are run in a sandbox and cannot access local filesystem. ActiveX components should have been designed that way too but seems like they can write on the local hard drive (at least, there are several exploits that write on the disk). VERY bad practice, tho. And works only on Win32 clients.

Consider using browser's "Save As..." dialog.