Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
I would like to retrieve the original path of the file upload for the purposes of grabbing the initial file name and then checking to see how many full stops (.) are in the original file. I need this to happen before I process it via CFFILE. Right now the form data posts back in a

Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread Don
Why do you need to do this before you process it with CFFILE? Because once its uploaded the server hacks off the last (.) For example: original file: somefile.mack.txt renamed file on server: somefile.mack I would like to retrieve the original path of the file upload for the purposes

Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread Dave Watts
Why do you need to do this before you process it with CFFILE? Because once its uploaded the server hacks off the last (.) For example: original file: somefile.mack.txt renamed file on server: somefile.mack By the time your server-side script runs, the file has already been uploaded.

Re: Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread William Seiter
Please have a look at this post: http://www.williamoncoldfusion.com/index.php/knowledgebase/file-uploading If you are referring to the cffile.serverfilename key that is available after the cffile upload command, that brings back somefile.mack, the extension is in a different key off of cffile

Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread Ian Skinner
On 3/7/2011 11:40 AM, Don wrote: Why do you need to do this before you process it with CFFILE? Because once its uploaded the server hacks off the last (.) For example: original file: somefile.mack.txt renamed file on server: somefile.mack Well, as Dave indicated, ColdFusion is not

Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread Don
Thanks guys. IAN this caught my attention: The client reads the file from the user's file system and encrypts it into the header of the request I've been using fiddler to view the headers and see the data I want : 200 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=b_file; filename=C:\Documents and

Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread Don
William, Ah I get you. since the extension will be cut off and placed within another variable all I would have to do post file upload is search the server.filename for a(.). Easy. Cheers. Please have a look at this post: http://www.williamoncoldfusion.

Re: file upload - preventing double or more full stops in file name

2011-03-07 Thread Ian Skinner
On 3/7/2011 12:52 PM, Don wrote: 200 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=b_file; filename=C:\Documents and Settings\dsdfsd\Desktop\clean up\test.docupload.doc And that is different from the cffile.clientFile property? Do note that cffile.clientFile is the full file name,