On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Rick Faircloth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > the user still has to explicitly choose a file value to put into it > > And that's good...the user should know exactly what they're uploading > and be able to control that. > > However, if I want to take responsibility to designate an entire folder > of files for upload, I should be able to do that, too. Not just one file > at a time, but choose the folder and all its contents. > > Why not? > Because that isn't what HTTP was ever designed to do. They made a whole protocol just to handle this: FTP. I'm somewhat confused about your point now. It's clear that what you're attempting to do is simply not possible using only a web broswer and a form. There are other avenues such as AIR, ActiveX, Java applets, or FTP that will do this. But unless you start mailing standards bodies and browser makers with enhancement requests, this avenue is closed. I can tell you that it makes functional testing a pain, because if you want to use something like Selenium to test a page that does a file upload, you're out of luck. Annoying? Maybe in some cases. Likely to change? Unlikely to the point of being moot, I'm afraid. Regards, Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:311767 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
