- From: Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:48:45 +0200
- To: www-forms@w3.org
- CC: Micah Dubinko <micah@dubinko.info>
Micah, With the HTML file upload control, you will have to select a file, and then upload it. There is also no guarantee that the user agent will send the path. It appears that IE sends the directory and file name information, but FireFox does not (just checked this with OPS). Upload size is not limited by HTTP, but of course it makes no sense to upload a 100 MB file just to browse a directory. Then what if the directory is empty? You won't be able to select a file name and then extract the path information. So it appears that this particular solution is bad for seelcting directories, and a little less so for selecting files, but in the latter case you have to use IE and to be ready for a potentially long upload... Now I am thinking that after the user has selected a file, it may be possible to extract the file name from the control, store it into another HTML field, and then somehow disable the upload. -Erik Micah Dubinko wrote: > > I have a client requesting a file/directory-picker control. A "browse" > button, and the resulting filesystem path goes into the instance data. > > I know that <upload> has <filename>. Has anyone used this as a directory > browser? I'm curious about how implementations have handled this. > > Thanks, > > .micah >
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