Question

I need to upload, say file1, file2, file3 to the server. I have used a file upload mechanism
for the same. Instead of sending the three files from the client to the server, I planned to
just read their names, and let the server fetch it from the client. I thought, it was
possible initially, only to think otherwise now. Is it possible? Also, reading the client
file using file_get_contents and copying it into a new file on the server would consume, some
time. So dropped the latter idea.

Answer 1

No, it isn’t possible for a server to ask the client to upload specific files over HTTP.