List Local Directory On Web Application

I have an idea a Web Application and I would need to list all files of a directory that exists on the client machine (For example C:\Temp). I searched a lot on the Internet and as

Solution 1:

In short:You can't get the control to list the files resides on local system(client machine) from browser.

Solution 2:

Java applets, if signed and set up properly, can get access to the local filesystem if the user clicks allow on the popup dialog box.

Flash and Silverlight, being built by intelligent beings, do not allow you access to the local filesystem -- and if they did, they would also have a dialog pop up asking if the user trusts the web app. Otherwise people could use it to collect all sorts of potentially dangerous information about your system.