upload

What's the best way to create a single-file upload form using PHP?

I've found a few samples online but I'd like to get feedback from people who use PHP daily as to potential security or performance considerations and their solutions. Note that I am only interested in uploading a single file at a time. Ideally no browser plugin would be required (Flash/Java), although it would be interesting to know th...

Is it possible to read only the first line of a file with Actionscript?

I've got a PHP-based site where we allow users to upload a comma-separated text file of data to be imported by some server side scripts. However, sometimes we need to adjust the column order of the data that is uploaded, and it would be immensely helpful if we could identify the columns in the CSV file before the upload takes place. The...

How do I get a status report of all files currently being uploaded via a HTTP form on an Apache Server?

How do I get a status report of all files currently being uploaded via HTTP form based file upload on an Apache Server? ...

Managing file uploads in JSP/Servlets

Once again a very beginner-ish question, but here I go: I would like to use a servlet or similar to copy an uploaded file (from an html file select) to a permanent location. This is all I need to do with the file. I am currently going with using the Apache Commons FileUpload and IO libraries. Is there no easier or more elegant solution?...

Using Apache commons FileUpload

This just won't work. The problem is that I do not know enough to even know what is supposed to happen. I can't debug this code. I'd like to store upload to temporary folder "temp" and then to move them to "applets". Please help? The servlet is obviously being accessed, but I can't find the uploaded files... Thanks in advance. Form (wh...

Why do browsers not have a file upload progress bar?

I wonder why no browser out there has such simple but essential feature. Am I missing something? Is there a technical reason? I'm tired of all those javascript/flash/java hacks out there ... ...

How do you upload SQL Server databases to shared hosting environments?

We have a common problem of moving our development SQL 2005 database onto shared web servers at website hosting companies. Ideally we would like a system that transfers the database structure and data as an exact replica. This would be commonly achieved by restoring a backup. But because they are shared SQL servers, we cannot restore b...

File Upload with Java (with progress bar)

I'm extremely new to Java, and have mostly just been teaching myself as I go, so I've started building an applet. I'd like to make one that can select a file from the local disk and upload it as a multipart/form-data POST request but with a progress bar. Obviously the user has to grant permission to the Java applet to access the hard dri...

ASP.Net free Ajax file upload control

I need an ASP.NET control for file uploads that can work in an update panel. Any ideas? ...

SharePoint Visual Studio document upload Web Test fails with Connot close stream until all bytes are written

I have created a Visual Studio 2008 sp1 test suite web test that uploads a document to a document library in SharePoint. The test is a lot like the one described here. All is fine until the test is converted to a coded web test. Then the upload post returns the response "Request failed: Connot close stream until all bytes are written"...

IIS7 - Uploading files with ASP problems

Hi, We've just moved our website to win2008 and IIS7 from win2000 with IS5 and I have some problems. I have a folder that in it is an ASP page that upload a file to an upper folder, in the old IIS, I gave to the folder with the ASP page the permissions of the administrator and it's work fine, the files could be uploaded to an upper fol...

How to programatically upload/post an image to an image hosting website without a browser?

I want to write a simple utility to upload images to various free image hosting websites like TinyPic or Imageshack via a right-click context menu for the file. How can I do this using .NET? I've seen some linux scripts that use cURL to post images to these website but I'm not sure how I could create the post request, complete with an ...

iPhone image upload in background.

I'm writing an app with an image upload feature. Right now I'm using NSURL POST like: 125306. When the app is closed as far as I can tell all of the uploads abort and the threads die. Is there 1) a way to make these upload threads persist when the app is no longer in the foreground? 2) an iPhone OS service that will accept requests ...

Size of uploaded file

Do web browsers send the file size in the http header when uploading a file to the server. And if that the case, then, is it possible to refuse the file just by reading the header and not wait for the whole upload process to finish? ...

Best Practices for uploading files to database

I am looking for any best practices or ideas on how you would create an interface with a DB from a .NET web application to upload data from Excel files Should I use a mechanism that allows all the records to be loaded and flags the errors or should I use a mechanism that stops the load when an error occurs. I've never had to deal with t...

CodeIgniter - Uploading an Image through a form, store the location of the image in database

Hey folks - I'm trying to upload an image to my site through a form, however it's much more efficient to (rather than bog down the database) just store the location of the image in the database. I'm having trouble with my form and really don't know where to go: <?=form_open('bro/submit_new');?> //other form data Image: <input type="...

What file permissions should I set for uploaded files

I have a PHP script that processes file uploads. The script tries to organise the files that are uploaded and may create new folders to move the files into if needed. These files will be below the www root directory (ie, a web browser will be able to access them). My question is, what permissions should I set for the folders that get cr...

How to cancel a file upload using dojo.io.iframe.send?

I am using the dojo.io.iframe.send method to send a file to my server. I want to provide a way that the user can cancel the send once it is in progress, in case it is taking too long or the user realizes she sent the wrong file. I can't figure a way to do this. I could use a timeout to terminate the send if it is taking a long time (tha...

Website image manager with copy/paste? (Flash?)

I'm looking for a web based upload manager, with good support for images. It should be as easy as possible for novice users to "add images to a website". I could use such a thing for two use cases: A CMS for external use, needs proper image support (1-file upload doesn't quite cut it). A Wiki for internal use, to get popular it will ne...

Uploading Files with ASP.Net MVC - get name but no file stream, what am I doing wrong?

I have this form in my view: <!-- This has a bug right here--v Don't copy this without removing the extra i--> <form method="post" enctype="mulitipart/form-data" action="/Task/SaveFile"> <input type="file" id="FileBlob" name="FileBlob"/> <input type="submit" value="Save"/> <input type="button" value="Cancel" onclick="window.location....