I have been searching all over and I can't find a solution, I know it is not possible for a website to automatically upload a file without user interaction, but, is it possible to upload a file without having to manually click on the upload button and search for the file, client side. I am sorry if I'm not clear since I do not have much experience in this field.
This is the page I have tried : http://www.jist.tv/create.php
I basically been trying to make the page know what file i'm trying to upload without using this input window.
This is the script the page uses to upload the file : http://www.jist.tv/vendor/uikit-2.24.3/js/components/upload.min.js
Is there a POST message I can send?
Any help would be great, thanks.
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I am trying to make a simple form submission in a GitHub Repository.
Basically what I want to do is take the input of an HTML Tag and then store it in another local file such as another HTML file or a text file without a back-end.
I understand that there was a saveAs function within JavaScript (however I read that it had been discontinued due to security reasons). Once I get the data stored in a file I would call it in the HTML page with the < embed > tag to show it on the page. So basically I want the Input on the page, and then when it is appended to the file, to show up on the same page again when the page is refreshed. My reason for doing this is to make a make-shift Google WorkSpace-like page for my production studio.
Here's a visual of what I want to do:
HTML PAGE:
Embedded File Contents (externalfile.html) Go Here.
Input: Input Goes Here
Submit
When Submit is pressed, it takes the contents within the "Input Goes here" box and appends it to "externalfile.html", then when the page is refreshed, it shows the updated content above the form.
I am not well-versed in JavaScript but I know JQuery a Good bit from making a few websites with Wix, but I do not know much native JavaScript nor it's functions. Any advice would be helpful. :) Thank you. I would be adding multiple input boxes and such on the page.
Hello and welcome to StackOverflow!
Now, if I got your question right, you want to append something to a file and read this file without using any backend? Then I must disappoint you, because there is no way JavaScript allows this, since it would be a tremendous security risk. The reason is, because any malicious JavaScript code on any webpage then could not only create malware files on your PC and dragging it to some start up folder, but also they would be able to read all the files and documents on your machine (without your knowledge!). So I think you see where the problem is.
For your task I recommend you using some kind of backend (i.e. NodeJS, PHP) and make things work with API requests and asynchronous JavaScript. Or you could serve your site with an ExpressJS backend and statically fetch the request and append its contents to a file. Then of course send an HTML file back with all the inputs the user made. The choice is yours.
Cheers
I have a web page which contains link to another website in different domain say "example.com\abc.msi". when I click on the link, the file starts downloading but I need to rename this file while downloading from that website. How can I accomplish this? I tried using download attribute of anchor tag, but for some reason its not working. This needs to be done in client side. Please help!
You cannot change the name of the file to be downloaded for it would be a security issue. You can imagine clicking a file image.png, and getting image.png.exe instead. This is not something browser developers would alow.
your abc.msi is a ftp file so whenever anyone call to the file or click on the link it will either be automatically downloaded or open a dialog for saving file on location
for example
hence it's up to the user where and how he wants to save the file.
Working on a project where we're using an XML of a user's iTunes tracks and play lists to integrate into other services. On Mac, this file is stored in the default location at /Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.xml . Since we need users to be able to upload their own XML file, is there a way to write a script that pulls the file from that location as soon as they click an upload button (saving them from having to search and find it each time)? If so, is this something that can be done through Javascript (or through Rails, since we're using that as well)?
Thanks!
If you mean on a browser, no, you can't. The user has to select the file, you can't pre-select it for them. It's a security measure. If a web page could pre-select the file in an input type="file", it would be trivial to auto-submit that form, or hide the input and trick the user into submitting the form, or read the file via the File API and send it to a server — in all cases, stealing a file from the user's machine without their knowledge or consent.
I am trying to allow users to upload pictures to the server.
I am trying to create a similar system to any website that has an 'attach' file or 'upload image' feature. All I need is to get the full path of the file select by the file dialog.
I tried using this for the file dialog with no success:
<input type="file">
This method does not provide the full file path, due to security reasons. My question is how can I create a similar input dialog to websites like tinypic, photobucket, etc.. that can help users input the full file path of a given image, into an input field?
I am aware that this cannot be done using the method above for security reasons, however, I have seen this done before on various websites without any problems, I was wondering what I had to do to implement a similar file dialog that helps fill in the text, which is a full file path, of an input field?
It is not possible to get the file full path on local machine using browser and javascript.
However, as you would like to upload the file to the server, the easy possibility I see is to use html form with input type file. You will receive the file on your http server when the form is submitted.
Here is a very good url http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html that explains the whole process nicely.
I search it every where but not found right answer, I'm trying to upload file using jQuery plugin, But I don't know to where file save when I upload file using this plugin.
My need is when file upload it save automatically to the page path.
Plugin Url:
http://hayageek.com/docs/jquery-upload-file.php
Demo Here
To upload a file to a website you need a server listening to request on the end. Jquery can be used to simplify getting the file to the server but once there the server has to accept it and copy it to the hard drive. Think about it like this, it would be a real problem if anyone could post anything to your server and have it be copied to your server. Hope this helps, or at least points you in the right direction.