Accessing Files Above Root Directory

[akrashdi]

I'm trying to access images from a folder above web root directory, kind of ASP equvalent of this PHP script:

$file = '/home/usernamexxxx/subscribe/grat/test/monkey.gif';

if (file_exists($file)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($file));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($file);
exit;
}