Mozilla sends a fully qualified path name ... just an FYI ...
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Robert Landrum wrote:
> At 9:01 AM -0800 3/12/02, David Wheeler wrote:
> >On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 03:57, Rich Bowen wrote:
> >
> >> my $form = Your::Class::form(); # Wherever you put this function
> >> if (my $file = $form->{UPLOAD}) {
> >> my $filename = $file->filename; # If you need the name
> >
> >Actually, if you want the name, it's a really good idea to just get the
> >basename, since some browsers on some platforms (e.g., IE/Mac) send the
> >complete path name to the file on the browser's local file system (e.g.,
> >':Mac:Foo:Bar:image.jpg'). This is trickier than it sounds, because you
> >have to tell basename() what platform to assume the file is from. Here's
> >how I suggest doing it.
>
> Since when? I just wrote something that did just this (in CGI), but
> it only uploaded the basename. I'm using Mac OS 9, IE 5.0. That
> sounds a lot like IE 3.0.
>
> The other way to go is
>
> $filename = $1 if($filename =~ /[\:\/\\]([^\:\/\\]+)$/);
>
> How many people use / : or \ in their paths? Can we shoot those
> people? I especially don't want people who use those characters
> uploading files that might be downloaded by someone on another
> platform. Just think what would happen if I downloaded Foo:Bar.txt,
> as uploaded by my windows friends.
>
> Rob
>
> --
> When I used a Mac, they laughed because I had no command prompt. When
> I used Linux, they laughed because I had no GUI.
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