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[darthdingus]

Internet Explorer 8 is trying to kill my soul.
Anyone have a good way to pull files off of a user's PC without their interaction, and have it not be flagged as hacking?

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[jkhuggins]

Almost by definition, no. At a minimum, they'd have to turn on file sharing and grant read access, which fails the "without their interaction" test.

Otherwise, you have to get their files without their consent (even if they would've given it had you asked) ... and that sort of activity is almost indistinguishable from hacking.

[darthdingus]

Yeah... it isn't entirely without user interaction. Just no interaction at the time of the upload.

Plexus' online document storage system has some cool functionality somewhat like source control, where a user can check out a doc, edit it, and check it back in. This process pushes and pulls a file to and from their PC behind the scenes.

Since IE8 locks down the HTML file input against scripting, the check-in is borked. I'm looking at using an ActiveX control to do this, and may have hit on the solution last night.