Our work-around (not as user friendly, but we trained our clients!) was:
Include a normal text input field for the NAME of the file. This is in
addition to the file input field:
<p>
Download File:<input type="file" accept="*/*" name="Doc" />
</p>
<p>
(for browser compatibility): enter the NAME of the Download
document: <input type="text" name="DocName" />
</p>
The WRITE action used the "DocName" for the "File:" parameter and the "Doc"
for the "Data to write:" parameter.
Worked x-plat and all browsers (that we know about).
I told my clients to copy the name of the file before going to the form. The
Browse button (next to the file input) will find the file just fine. They
then _pasted_ the name into the other field and submit.
--
Beverly Voth
Tier 3 Data & Web Services Group, LLC
DBA, Moonbow Software
Certified FileMaker 7 Developer
Web Design & Hosting: Coldfusion, Witango, PHP, SQL2000, MySQL, FMP
http://www.moonbow.com/xml.htm
606-864-0041
On 01/6/2006 6:47 AM, "Robert Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in whole
or in part:
> I remembered a workaround for this without upgrading witango, or IIS
> or anything. One of the nice things about windows 2003 and IIS 6, is
> you have ASP .NET serving built in for free, and it does not suffer
> from this problem. We have done this in the past to get around a bug
> in witango, or lack of a feature we have needed.
>
> You keep your form in witango, but you don't post to another taf. You
> post it to a ASP .NET page. This page receives the post from the mac,
> or whatever, bug free, and in your ASP .NET code, you can then "hand
> off" the results of the form post to a receiving witango page with a
> redirect, and a get argument. The get argument would be some unique
> id. The ASP .NET page will take the file, and save it in a temporary
> place, and save it with the id as the file name, or something like
> that. When it redirects to the taf, the taf gets the get arg, and
> finds the file and does what it needs.
>
> It gets trickier if the form has more than just the file, but also
> other fields. In that case, we also have asp store an xml file with
> the data, and when handed off to the tango taf, it reads in the
> values. I don't remember if tango2000 had ANY xml abilities, but you
> could store any type of text file, like a name value pair that could
> be tokenized or something.
>
> Anyway, just a thought.
>
> On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Customer Support wrote:
>
>> This is a known issue with T2K. T2K processes multi part
>> boundaries with a hard coded string size for the boundary marker.
>> Opera and Safari used a longer boundary marker than T2K could
>> handle so it gets truncated which causes the matching of the
>> boundaries to fail so the server cannot find the uploaded file part
>> of the request. This issue was fixed in an early release of
>> Witango 5. If you look at the raw http request you will see the
>> difference in the boundaries between Safari and IE.
>>
>> IIS 5 also had issues with the multi part boundaries sent from
>> Safari which were fixed in W2K SP4.
>>
>>
>> Witango Support
>>
>>> No, I am using Windows 2004 Server (Windows NT 5.2) and IIS 6 with
>>> Tango 2000. Seems like some of the documentation in the original
>>> taf said something about it not working with Macs, but that
>>> wasn't an issue for me then. It sure is now, tho. I just
>>> assumed the problem was with how Mac files are.
>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Robert Garcia
>>>> President - BigHead Technology
>>>> VP Application Development - eventpix.com
>>>> 13653 West Park Dr
>>>> Magalia, Ca 95954
>>>> ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Noel Estabrook wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I've got a fairly straightforward upload taf that
>>>>> I got from the component zone on the web a while
>>>>> back, but am experiencing an influx of Mac users.
>>>>> The upload taf I'm
>>>> using won't work with a Mac.
>>>>> Does anyone know of a simple upload taf that will
>>>>> allow for the uploading of images on either a PC
>>>>> or a Mac?
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