Access the clients temp folder.

[ajay dv]

I'm trying to access the path of the clients temporary directory, i've tried this but it just appears to display the servers temporary directory.

String tempDiskPath = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
out.print("tempDiskPath = " + tempDiskPath);

[Richard Tookey]

ajay dv wrote:I'm trying to access the path of the clients temporary directory, i've tried this but it just appears to display the servers temporary directory.

String tempDiskPath = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
out.print("tempDiskPath = " + tempDiskPath);

JSP execute on the server so you can't in any straightforwards manner get hold of the client's tmp directory from within your JSP. And why would you want to be able to do that since your JSP can never directly access that directory.

[Tim Holloway]

There's a technical name for web applications that attempt to write (or read) a user's local files. Malware.

Web clients are designed to only permit local file access via the explicit manual direction of the client's operator.