path issue in firefox in input type file

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Hi everyone,
I am facing problem with Firefox ,not getting full path of selected file from input type file in jquery ,its working fine with IE

eg .when i select file "c:\demo\image1.jpg" in input file. IE give same path in jquery but Firefox give only file name "image1.jpg" because of this i am not able to save image . in database

Please suggest solution for this.

Posted 20-Mar-13 5:38am

Samar chougule

Updated 20-Mar-13 5:42am

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ZurdoDev 20-Mar-13 12:04pm

This should not prevent you from saving the file in the database. It is a built-in security feature of FireFox. In fact, Google chrome will add c:\FakePath\image1.jpg. Your code should not be able to access the client's hard drive so that is why the browser restricts it. A file upload control should still be able to work though.

Samar chougule 20-Mar-13 13:49pm

Thanks ryanb31,
problem is that i want this path in jquery not in code behind file ,by passing url through webmethod i am converting image into byte and then saving into database ,this working fine IE but FF gives problem

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2013-03-20T06:07:00

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AFAIK, there is no solution to it. Recent browsers do not pass on the full filepath any more because of security reasons.

This is what you can get that too in code behind:

C#

string path = FileUpload1.PostedFile.FileName

Have a look at the following discussions on similar topic:
FileUpload loses directory path.[^]
FileUpload.PostedFile.FileName not giving full path in chrome[^]

Posted 20-Mar-13 6:07am

Sandeep Mewara

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Samar chougule 20-Mar-13 13:47pm

Hi Sandeep thanks ,
problem is that i want this path in jquery not in code behind file ,by passing url through webmethod i am converting image into byte and then saving into database ,this working fine IE but FF gives problem

Sandeep Mewara 20-Mar-13 14:24pm

Even in jQuery, whatever browser puts in input box, only that will be retrieved.