Claude/James - thanks for your posts... the explanations are much appreciated.
I also received a great reference to william seiters blog post on cffile:
http://wsoncf.blogspot.com/2008/02/knowledgebase-file-uploading.html
case closed...on to other challenges
they both have the file name and no directory information can be found.
I'm surprised there even exists a cffile.clientDirectory variable, since
this information is never
provided by any browser. If it was it would constitute a serious breach
in security.
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Anyone encounter this?
Use cffile to upload a file to a server. Then dump #cffile#. attributes
listed include cffile.clientFile and cffile.clientDirectory.
When I run this (on three different systems), clientFile eq
clientDirectory...they both have the file name and no directory information
Well I would agree with you except that the information is only available after
the server has uploaded the file. Hence it seems that it would have had to
know where to get the file from (i.e. the client's directory and file path).
Furthermore, the good folks on the ColdFusion team seem to
Hence it seems that it would have had to know where to get the file
from (i.e. the client's directory and file path).
The server does not get the file, the client sends the file, therefore
the server does not need to know
the directory name.
The server gets the file name, but this is just
Exactly - it depends on what the client is willing to send. In IE7 my
test code gives me the full client path where it belongs in the CFFILE
struct (including my username, since I uploaded from the My
Documents folder in my account). Firefox displays the behaviour the
OP described (no client
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