Is reading local file possible?

Hi,
My intention is to use Flash 8 Pro as a tool allowing to
upload large files
into the server (something like FTP client). Unfortunately a
lot of servers
have tight restrictions for transmition time (sometimes
limited to 30s).
Work around to this could be a Flash. I couldn't find any
information in
Flash documentation about reading binary files selected by
user by
HTML-like file field. I would like to read selected file,
split it into
severeal smaller parts and then upload every part separately
into the
server. Is it possible?
Regards,
Marek

> Czesc Marek
Hi! It seems you speak my native language :-)))
> Flash itself has no FTP capabilities. The only thing you
can do is use
> middle ware
> like php or asp and server side to upload stuff to
server and use flash to
> prompt
> the Browse for File dialog, and than upload your files.
Flash itself has
> no way of
> doing it at all unless with middle ware.
Yes, I know that. That is the reason why I have written
'somethig like FTP'.
Ok, once again... I can create PHP script to receive POST
uploads. This is
no problem to me. The problem is that iddle time for scripts
on this
particular server is set to 30 seconds only. It means that I
can't upload
files for which transfer time will be longer then 30s. To
work around this
issue it is necessary SPLIT uploaded file into the chunks
then transfer it
to the server and join using e.g. PHP script. I need a tool
embeded on web
page which allows me to select large file (large sometimes
means 1MB) and
send into the server jumping over server time limitations.
Flash contains
build-in FileReference class but there is no described in the
documentation
how to send selected file as e.g. 4 separate parts of it.
> There is an upload samples which comes with
> flash and can be located under the SAMPLE directory on
your C drive in the
> Macromedia
> folder. This is as far as it goes.
It is also described in Flash help under FileReference class
description.

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