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File-Upload _ C:\fakepath\ ?

phreakphreak MVP
edited October 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
Hi,

Some people, including me, experience the issue that the upload doesn't work, because the progress bar keeps loading.

To the left of the progress bar appears "only" in Chrome:
C:\fakepath\filename.jpg ...

"fakepath ?" whats happening here.

Upload doesn't work and progress bar keeps loading under Safari, Chrome, Firefox.

Thanx for help!
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Best Answer

  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓
    However, this was fixed in the latest FileUpload. Get 1.4, your fakepath problems will be over.

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Answers

  • veganovegano
    search the code of FileUpload

    seems like this is a unerased snippet of development process. May this should replace anything so the script could be tested or something.

    I think it might be helpful to have the source of that string - so search for "fakepath" in the add-on files
  • veganovegano
    no - nothing on the code of the plugin...
  • veganovegano
    if I can trust my windows search, then in my whole vanilla2 directory there is no 'fakepath' - may this is from Chrome?!

    a search in the web let me guess this comes from your browser.
  • phreakphreak MVP
    Thank you vegano for your feedback. Yeah seems like coming from chrome.

    Does anyone have an idea how to conquer that upload problem?
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  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    I just found this:

    http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/the-mystery-of-cfakepath-unveiled/

    @Tim - thoughts?
  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    Without reading that yet, afaik its a chrome security thing. Let me read.

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  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓
    However, this was fixed in the latest FileUpload. Get 1.4, your fakepath problems will be over.

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  • erKURITAerKURITA
    This is actually a "standard", HTML 5 standard specifically:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/number-state.html#file-upload-state

    "For historical reasons, the value IDL attribute prefixes the filename with the string "C:\fakepath\". Some legacy user agents actually included the full path (which was a security vulnerability). As a result of this, obtaining the filename from the value IDL attribute in a backwards-compatible way is non-trivial. (...)"
  • LakeLake
    I am using google chrome, and I got this same error - no "fakepath" in my code, but I am getting "C:\fakepath\filename.jpg", and I'm on a Mac.. so it seems like something in Chrome, to me.
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