Full path in forms with type=file

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Full path in forms with type=file

Postby brodney » Sun 12 Sep, 2004 10:09 am

Hi, and apologies if this isn't the appropriate place to post this question.

Older Netscape (4.76) forms with input tag type=file WITHOUT specifying "enctype=multipart/form-data" had the nice side effect of sending the FULL PATH of the selected file to the server.

Recent tests on 7.2 seem to show that the same form html is sending only the FILE NAME i.e. without the full path to the server.

It seems the client behavious has changed somewhere between 4.76 and 7.2.

Does anybody know how to send the fully pathed file name without actually uploading the file, in recent Netscape versions?
UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
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