[Zope] Pathnames in uploaded files

[David Siedband]

You could use the python split function and split on the final \

--
David



On Nov 13, 2003, at 1:59 PM, J Cameron Cooper wrote:

> 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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