Hard Drives and Movies
Originally I was offered a small hard drive a few months back. Today I received two. They are both 20 GB in size and handy for backing up files. I need to learn a thing or two about Norton Ghost.
I got an email today that Wal-Mart is allowing us to pre-order Harry Poter and the Goblet of Fire on DVD. It comes out on March 7th. I figured that I would go ahead and preorder. Unfortunately my Wal-Mart card couldn’t be processed. I called up the 800 number and found that I still had a credited balance of $1500. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to speak with a human and figure out what the problem is.
The Chronicles of Narnia is due to come out on April 4th and can also be preordered too. Both Harry Potter and Narnia were running around the same time and I unfortunately missed them both in the theater. At least the DVD’s cost less then a trip for two at the movies.
February 28th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
I want to get Harry Potter too. - Walmart has it for 21.87 compared to Amazon’s 21.99. I saw both movies in the theatres and think Harry Potter is better. - After having seen the animated version of narnia way back, I just felt like some of the magic was missing from this one.
February 28th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
The animated version was pretty long. I think there were a few movies for it. I may end up walking in the one down the street and picking up a DVD there.
March 1st, 2006 at 8:09 pm
Hi, I have been using your code for the asp upload functionality that I got from the ASP101 website. It works quite well, but I’m having problems trying to get the fully qualified path name of a file which I am uploading.
In your example code: in the file ToDatabase.asp, you have:
objRs.Fields(”FileName”).Value = objUpload.Fields(”File1″).FileName
That works great, but if you have a file called c:\data\myUploads\abcfile.doc
the objUpload.Fields(”File1″).Filename only returns the abcfile.doc part of the string. I can’t figure out how to get the full pathname from the Input Type = “File” object.
Any ideas?
Thanks alot in advance.
-Philip Henderson
ERM Information Solutions
March 3rd, 2006 at 12:35 am
Philip,
I believe the filename passed in the byte stream is just the portion you are getting above. - If you look at clsUpload, there is a block of code that looks like this (near line 200, your version may vary from mine):
‘ Parse Filename
lnStartPosition = lnFileNamePosition + 10
lnEndPosition = InstrB(lnStartPosition, lnBytes, CStrB(”"”"))
lsFileName = CStrU(MidB(lnBytes,lnStartPosition,lnEndPosition-lnStartPosition))
loField.FileName = lsFileName
As you can see, the field is being set with everything passed. - If you must have the directory/path information, then you can use a workaround on the page that contains the ‘input type=file’ element. Add some javascript that registers in the onchange event to pickup the name of the file (actual path) and store it in a separate hidden field. Lewie may have some sample code for this, but if not, it’s fairly basic.
-Krozy
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:29 am
There is a bigger problem for users who sending files over the internet rather then a LAN, local machine, or trusted website. The full path is not sent from the browser due to security reasons.
March 7th, 2006 at 12:43 am
See http://www.theonlinegamer.com/filetest.html for a sample of this in action.
On my machine, that isn’t local, or trusted. It’s been tested on Firefox and Internet Explorer on windows. At this time, I still consider this a very low level security threat.
-Lucas