I need to let the user browse a absolute file path and set that path into a text-box.
Please note: I know you don´t need the path to upload the file and I will not actually upload the file. This is for internal use in an intranet where the user needs to enter a path to a file.
What I need is a button that opens a browser and a text box that shows the result. Sound easy but the input file control only gives the name of the file and I cannot find a solution.
This is, alas, not possible for security reasons. Javascript has very limited access to the filesystem.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535128.aspx for IE specific workaround, and http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/ for info about what is coming in html5 wrt. file uploads.
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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 have a webpage, that downloads a file,
now the requirement is to show a alert where the downloaded file has been stored.
Is it possible to get the download folder location of a browser through any of browser properties(navigator,window,location etc). Please help.
Thanks in advance
Nope, it is not possible.
Paths, and the whole HDD are beyond browser sandbox, you can't even got the choosen path from "Pick file to upload" (<input type="file"...) buttons.
If it's a normal webpage then forget about it as #ProblemFactory says. But if it's a webapp for closed group of users and you can enforce to use a specific browser then you can achieve this goal by creating a browser extension. At least I know it's possible in Firefox.
And here is the documentation of API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/JavaScript_code_modules/Downloads.jsm/Download
The target property of the Download object holds the path to the file.
As you said that you are using IE9, I assume that the choice of the browser is up to you.
For a website I am working on, I need to allow users to be able to specify the path to a file on a network drive, so I simply tried using a file field and having javascript get the value, however because of browser security I cannot get this path.
Is there anyway to get around this browser security and allow users to browse to the file on the network drive and select it to specify the path?
Thanks,
Alex.
AFAIK this is impossible with javascript. Flash also forbids from accessing the client file paths. ActiveX could be used but it will work only in IE and must be installed on the client computer.
I need to have my user send the file path to the webserver. For this i'm trying to use input file type so that user can select the file. Please note that I don't want do uploading the file. I just need the location of some file. So user should be able to do that using browse option. I know that due to some security reasons in browsers, full path is not sent to server. But can we acheive this some way. I've observed that using input type=file after user selects some file using browse option (as it is not possible to select folder), the Firefox sends the server just the filename and IE sends fullpath of file including file name.
Please note that this website is used internally so it is not a security problem at all, so don't bother about security and all.
is there anyway we can acheive this?
Thanks in advance,
Sreed
You need to use something that has access to the filesystem. BY DESIGN javascript/html cannot do this. You need to use flash, java or a browser plug-in.
No, sadly I don't think there is.
All modern browsers will send a C:\Fakepath path. To my knowledge, this behaviour can not be changed for local networks in any browser.
I'm not sure what the state of things is for Flash-based uploaders like SWFUpload or Uploadify. Flash traditionally gives more control over such data than the native browser controls. (Edit: Uploadify seems to give you the file path. See this question: How can I get the uploaded file details from uploadify after completion however, this of course is after a completed upload, which is not what you want.)
A Java applet based solution will be able to do this, but I expect the effort to implement this is huge.
I would consider using a normal text file, and asking the user to just copy+paste the correct path.
Browsers do not let you save or even see the full file path to a selected file from the <input type="file" /> form element. I would recommend Flash or Java for your needs. You could also have the user manually type in the full path...just a thought.
It is possible to get the path of image path, when uploaded using file element?
Basically, I want to grab the clients path and show it on the page so that user can be certain of what image he chosed, before uploading it.
Any alternative suggestion are welcomed.
Its browser security -- you cannot get access to the full path on the user's filesystem. As a web-app, you only get access to the actual file and its name. Afaik, you can do this by writing a browser plugin, but with normal security privileges, you cannot.
are you meaning you want to grab the image, or just grab the path?
if you want the path you could use: $('#uploadinput').val();