[Zope] Pathnames in uploaded files

[J Cameron Cooper]

Mark Barratt wrote:

> I have a dialogue that uploads files to LocalFS. When I upload a file 
> from my Windows machine it uploads filename.ext. When another person 
> uploads a file from their Windows machine it uploads a file called 
> \\complete\path\to\filename.ext.
>
> Any idea why this should be?

It shouldn't be. But IE in at least some popular incarnations uploads 
the entire path of the file as a name. Naturally, this is against 
considerations of privacy, security, and interoperability. (Plus, 
probably, standards compliance.)

> And how to stop it?

Glibly, use a browser that isn't broken. There are work-arounds, of 
course, and you can find them on the list (or simply think up a simple 
Python expression that will fix this.) But it's very hard to make a 
universal solution to the problem because of the wide variety of path 
notations.

          --jcc

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