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Who would want to upload files via the HTML standard? Shouldn't you be using some sort of SOAP API with an ActiveX control? Or maybe the users should login to their local ActiveDirectory server and transfer the file to a shared folder via SMB/CIFS. /s

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The hair on my neck was raising up until I got to the /s

Well played.

If he wrote a few lines more before getting to /s, could the sudden electrostatic discharge fry your computer? ;).

Goodbye Macbook Air as I throw it across the room :)

Thrown by the electrostatic discharge, I presume.

Please elaborate

I've seen several schools decide to implement mandatory functionalities using ActiveX...

You know the thing that forces you to use the most dreaded program of all times...

Edit: I hope you were /s'ing

>You know the thing that forces you to use the most dreaded program of all times...

lotus notes?

Internet Explorer.

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