#28802 [Com]: name of file upload cutted in php4.3.7

ID: 28802 Comment by: imprestavel at gameguru dot com dot br Reported By: mstaiger at informatik dot uni-siegen dot de Status: Open Bug Type: HTTP related Operating System: win 2k server PHP Version: 4.3.7 New Comment: You may try: <input type="text" size=50 name="userURL"> Using input-file for URL was not desired because input-file is for uploading local files. From the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php "$_FILES['userfile']['name'] The *original name* of the *file on the client machine*." original name != url/path And if the client/browser decides to upload a "fake" empty file, because it doesn't exist locally, there is nothing php can do about it, but you could check that and do something Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-06-16 11:52:41] mstaiger at informatik dot uni-siegen dot de Description: ------------ The typical file-upload HTML-command: <input type="file" size=50 name="userfile"> creates an input field to pick a file from the local machine. We used to "abuse" this field also to insert URLs instead of physical filenames which worked fine so far. When entered "http://www.somedomain.com" the php variable $_FILES['userfile']['name'] contained the entire URL : "http://www.somedomain.com" Now, the new version seems to cut everything before the last slash and $_FILES['userfile']['name'] contains only "www.somedomain.com", without "http://" . We could not find any documentation for this behaviour and doubt that this behaviour was desired? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=28802&edit=1