Rick Sanders wrote: > Hello Bruce, > > Thanks for your reply. However, I'd like to grab the file name before the > file is actually uploaded to the server. > > Kind regards, > > Rick You can't with ColdFusion. The browser does not tell the server anything about the file before the upload occurs. It just bundles the entire file up and sends it with the request to the server generated when the user selects the 'submit' control. Then the web server takes the file from the request and writes it to a temp file location. It then passes the request to ColdFusion telling it where this temp location is. ColdFusion then does what you tell it to do with the file.
To do anything before this must be done on the Client usually with JavaScript. But it is not so easy to access information about any user file selections with JavaScript for security reasons. The one technique I've seen is to mirror the path string from the file control to a hidden control. One then can do some JS validation with the hidden control value. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298137 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
