Accessing files and filenames from posted FORMS in server side Javascript

[Dummy]

Hi,

From the following web site
http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6410-10/request.htm I have found how to
access the elements of an HTML form from server-side Javascript. Using the
"request" object built into the server the elements of the form appear under
their name as a "dot field". For example "request.user_n ame" or
"request.email" .

What I can't understand is how to deal with file uploads where the form
element type is "file". I need BOTH the filename and some way of accessing
the contents of the file. Does anyone know how this is done?

Thanks.

Ed.

[nikki]

Re: Accessing files and filenames from posted FORMS in server side Javascript


Dummy wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> From the following web site
> http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6410-10/request.htm I have found how to
> access the elements of an HTML form from server-side Javascript. Using the
> "request" object built into the server the elements of the form appear under
> their name as a "dot field". For example "request.user_n ame" or
> "request.email" .
>
> What I can't understand is how to deal with file uploads where the form
> element type is "file". I need BOTH the filename and some way of accessing
> the contents of the file. Does anyone know how this is done?
>[/color]

That is actually a bit complicated unless your server-side tech of
choice has a File object for this.
I don't think NES has that, so you may need to roll your own. I'm not
sure.

Check out how this classic ASP FileUploader does it.

http://www.asp101.com/articles/jacob/scriptupload.asp

It is written in VBscript, but should be pretty understandable. You'd
have to translate it to javascript.

Or you could just use perl cgi instead. :)