[thelist] script alternative for static web site

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

Hi Diane,

	Short answer:  there is no way to read server files using only
client-side javascript.

	If it's a Windows 95/98 machine, you can install PWS (Personal
Web Server) and run Active Server Pages (anything newer will just use
IIS).  They can be scripted with either VBScript (very easy to learn) or
Jscript (Microsoft's Javascript variant).

	One other option, if you don't want to do things through the web
server, would be to use Windows Scripting Host... But again, if it's not
installed on the machine and the only access you have is http or ftp,
you're probably out of luck.  This is a really odd request; I'd be
interested to hear more context on your situation.

Cheers,

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Diane Soini

I am looking for a way to do file system operations on a server. Is 
there a way to use javascript? The server has no traditional scripting 
capabilites (i.e. cgi/perl, asp, php etc.) It's a Windows machine. I 
have no way to connect to it other than ftp and http.

What I want to do is traverse a tree of directories and read some 
files, process the info, then write out a file. What can be run 
(without installing anything) that will let me do that through http? On 
the other server I've got a nice perl script, but I'm stumped for what 
I could use on this other server given the limitations. Any suggestions?