On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:14 AM, josephi <jose...@dircsa.org.au> wrote:
> Hi, I have a suspicion that my problem might not be Django specific, > but I'm not entirely sure, and would appreciate any pointers to > information on the subject. > > I have a Form with several fields, one of which is a FileField. This > field is required. If I fill in the FileField but the form doesn't > validate because of other field errors the FileField widget becomes > empty once the form is redisplayed after validation. This forces the > user to re-select their file. > > Can anyone tell me the reason for this? Is there a workaround? > The reason is because typically browsers don't allow the web server to pre-fill a file input with a value. (Allowing this would enable malicious servers to easily trick naive users into uploading sensitive files.) Karen -- http://tracey.org/kmt/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
