title: Reading data from CD-ROM or DVD using the browser
body: <p>I am building a webapp for a friend where the user interface should allow users to press a button, and it should somehow upload all of the contents of the CD-ROM/DVD they have inserted, to a server. </p>
  
  <p>I can't really have the standard "Choose file..." of the browser, because there are many different files inside the CD, under many different folders. So I can't have my users choose all the files individually - even if I implement the HTML5 multi-selection, they would still have to navigate through all the sub-folders (there may be several levels). And plus this needs to work on IE8, so multi-selection won't work.</p>
  
  <p>What are my best choices to achieve this? I'm looking for the most transparent solution - downloading a Java applet or an external plugin would be too much of an overhead. Can flash achieve something like this? Flash is still a plugin, but it would be acceptable because it's used in many places and doesn't require "permission to run" as Java applets do.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>