Unable to search for a local file on PC

[aronnebrivio]

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[giuscri]

I'm not sure to understand where the problem is, but if you're expecting to traverse the file system without asking anything to the user, this is very unlikely to consist in a bug.

To my knowledge, there exists neither an API for doing that nor any assumption you can do that: except you exploit a vulnerability in the browser's sandboxing, you won't be able to access the file system from client-side javascript.

What you can do is to let the user itself to provide the file to the browser — both by a dialog or a drag-and-drop'able box in the HTML.
From then on, you can use the File API (that is not deprecated anymore, apparently).

If you don't feel like a ninja on the topic, and the W3C draft is of no help, you can check this post on Google's Html5 Rocks that I used when I got stuck on the File stuff.

[aronnebrivio]

The problem was the user needs to choose a file from PC to import a private/public key and finder.js doesn't work except for Firefox OS.. I solved using an if the app is running on a non-Firefox OS platform.. Another solution would be the drag-and-drop, I'm taking a look to it :)