If not a reading from file then what?

[Q]

Hello,

I looked through some posting of this group and understood that for
JavaScript it is not natural ot read from a file. Isn't that so? If it
is a case, what is the best solution for the following problem.
Visitor of a wep page creates some data which will be changed during
next subsequent visit of this page. I wanted to store this data in a
file on the server side and then read this data at next conection of
the corresponding user. The first reason of doing this is that I do
not whant user has a possibility to chang this data in his unprovided
way.

Thank you.

[Douglas Crockford]

Re: If not a reading from file then what?

> I looked through some posting of this group and understood that for[color=blue]
> JavaScript it is not natural ot read from a file. Isn't that so? If it
> is a case, what is the best solution for the following problem.
> Visitor of a wep page creates some data which will be changed during
> next subsequent visit of this page. I wanted to store this data in a
> file on the server side and then read this data at next conection of
> the corresponding user. The first reason of doing this is that I do
> not whant user has a possibility to chang this data in his unprovided
> way.[/color]

Right, so you send the data back to the server. You do that with an HTTP
POST, and you can do that by submitting a <form>.

http://www.crockford.com/javascript

[Evertjan.]

Re: If not a reading from file then what?

Q wrote on 23 jan 2005 in comp.lang.javas cript:
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> I looked through some posting of this group and understood that for
> JavaScript it is not natural ot read from a file. Isn't that so?[/color]

Even if it where not unnatural that would not change the outcome
[color=blue]
> If it
> is a case, what is the best solution for the following problem.
> Visitor of a wep page creates some data which will be changed during
> next subsequent visit of this page. I wanted to store this data in a
> file on the server side and then read this data at next conection of
> the corresponding user. The first reason of doing this is that I do
> not whant user has a possibility to chang this data in his unprovided
> way.
>[/color]

You can do that with javascript,
using serverside javascript under ASP.

Clientside coding, javascript or whatever,
cannot access files on the server.

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