Oh well crap. Any ideas as to how I might do this? Would a good approach to be to try to incorporate the file into a form submission and then operate on it fom memory?
ugh :( On 1/3/06, Martin Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/3/06, David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > I'm looking for a little guidance on the usage of fhe FileUpload > component > > to see if it can meet my needs on my application. Essentially, I have an > > application that (in the session) knows the location of a file which I > > Ideally would like to move to another "common" location, such as under > the > > web server itself. > > > > Does the file upload allow that sort of thing? The file itself isn't a > > part > > of the form, but I do have the file system location of the file.. > > > Commons FileUpload can't help you if all you have is a path to the file, > and > in fact if the path is for the client machine, it's really of no use to > you. > (And if it's for the server machine, then you don't need an upload. ;) > FileUpload parses multipart requests, but those requests have to be made > by > the browser (using an <input type="file"> element) or some other client > such > as Commons HttpClient. > > -- > Martin Cooper > > > Thoughts? > > -- > > -Dave > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- -Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
