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]

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.

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.]

Q wrote on 23 jan 2005 in comp.lang.javascript:

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?

Even if it where not unnatural that would not change the outcome

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.

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

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