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Subject: RE: [FileUpload] IE vs Firefox
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:39:42 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [FileUpload] IE vs Firefox
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From: "Knezevic, Mihael" <m.knezevic@porta.de>
To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>

this was discussed several time on the list. perhaps it should be =
written down in a FAQ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mfncooper@gmail.com [mailto:mfncooper@gmail.com] On=20
> Behalf Of Martin Cooper
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:38 AM
> To: Jakarta Commons Users List
> Subject: Re: [FileUpload] IE vs Firefox
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> First of all, please respect the conventions of this mailing list, and
> prefix your subject with the name of the relevant component in square
> brackets, as I have done with this reply. See:
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> http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#Commons
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> On 1/20/06, Xav <xxpikeboo@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > It looks like the fileupload classes parse (or maybe=20
> should) the request
> > a little bit differently depending if IE or Firefox is used.
> > I use the following code:
> >
> > List /* FileItem */items =3D upload.parseRequest( request ) ;
> > Iterator iter =3D items.iterator() ;
> > *while* ( iter.hasNext() ) {
> >   FileItem item =3D (FileItem) iter.next() ;
> >   ...
> > }
> >
> > When the item object is a file the method item.getName()=20
> returns just
> > the file's name (ex: fooBar.gif) whereas with IE it returns the full
> > path of where the file was on the client side (ex:=20
> c:\foo\bar\fooBar.gif).
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> FileUpload is returning to you what the browser sent to the=20
> server. IE sends
> the full path; most other browsers send only the file name,=20
> for security
> reasons.
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> That might be an IE bug but do you think that the fileupload component
> > should be changed so that the method getName() always=20
> returns the same
> > information regardless of the browser used?
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> FileUpload's job is simply to parse the data sent to the=20
> server, not to
> interpret it in any way. You might want only the file name,=20
> but someone else
> might want the full path. That's a decision that can only be=20
> made for a
> specific application, so it's not something FileUpload should=20
> be doing.
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> --
> Martin Cooper
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> Thanks
> > Xavier
> >
> >
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