Re: Original path associated with an InMemoryUploadedFile
Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks!
Margie
On Nov 5, 5:21 pm, Karen Tracey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Margie Roginski
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
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> > In my app, my user inputs one more more attachments and on the server
> > side I am successfully getting them via code like this:
>
> > for file in request.FILES.getlist('attachment'):
> > a = Attachment(
> > filename = filename,
> > mime_type=mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or
> > 'application/octet-stream',
> > size=file.size,
> > )
>
> > In certain cases the user has errors in other parts of the form, and I
> > need to re-render the form. In this case I would like to re-fill the
> > inputs that they originally filled with the paths to their
> > attachments. IE, prior to submitting the form, they browsed to some
> > file and selected it as their attachment. When I re-render the form
> > after detecting an error, I would like them to not have to re-browse
> > to find their attachment again.
>
> > However, I do not see any way of getting the orignal path name from
> > the InMemoryUploadedFile that I have access to in my variable.
>
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to get this original path?
>
> It doesn't matter if you are able to retrieve the original file location,
> the browser won't use it. Allowing the server to pre-fill a FileInput field
> is considered to dangerous -- if browsers allowed this then users could be
> unwittingly tricked into uploading sensitive files by malicious servers.
> Browsers require the user to manually select a file each time one is
> uploaded.
>
> Karen
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Re: Original path associated with an InMemoryUploadedFile
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Margie Roginski wrote:
>
> In my app, my user inputs one more more attachments and on the server
> side I am successfully getting them via code like this:
>
>for file in request.FILES.getlist('attachment'):
>a = Attachment(
>filename = filename,
>mime_type=mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or
> 'application/octet-stream',
>size=file.size,
>)
>
> In certain cases the user has errors in other parts of the form, and I
> need to re-render the form. In this case I would like to re-fill the
> inputs that they originally filled with the paths to their
> attachments. IE, prior to submitting the form, they browsed to some
> file and selected it as their attachment. When I re-render the form
> after detecting an error, I would like them to not have to re-browse
> to find their attachment again.
>
> However, I do not see any way of getting the orignal path name from
> the InMemoryUploadedFile that I have access to in my variable.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get this original path?
>
>
It doesn't matter if you are able to retrieve the original file location,
the browser won't use it. Allowing the server to pre-fill a FileInput field
is considered to dangerous -- if browsers allowed this then users could be
unwittingly tricked into uploading sensitive files by malicious servers.
Browsers require the user to manually select a file each time one is
uploaded.
Karen
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