Hi Scott, An invisible iframe is a common technique to do a ajax file upload since you cant use the browsers XMLHttpRequest. Possibly he started to implement something like this and did not complete it.
I have used the Jquery form plugin in the past to do ajax file uploads. Not sure if that is your final objective, and I did not read through the entire post. But there is a good explanation in in the "File Uploads" example here: http://malsup.com/jquery/form/#code-samples Cheers, Peter On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Scott Olmsted <[email protected]> wrote: > > And the answer is: > > None of the above. > > I first confirmed that the problem was in the upload routine. Other > redirects worked, both in that controller and others. > > Since I had removed virtually all the controller code, and the model > contained almost nothing, all that was left was the view. And when I > removed target="upload_target" from this line: > > <form action="/my/video/upload" id="uploadByURL" target="upload_target" > method="POST"> > > the redirect started working. At > http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_form.asp it says: > > target <http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_target.asp> (_blank > _self _parent _top *framename* ) Deprecated. Specifies where to open the > action URL. > > More of the view: > > <iframe id="upload_target" name="upload_target" src="#" > style="width:0;height:0;border:0px solid #fff;"></iframe> > <div class=...etc> > <form action="/my/video/upload" id="uploadByURL" target="upload_target" > method="POST"> > ...form inputs... > > So I gather that this "invisible" iframe accomodates an uploaded file in > some way, but I don't understand it. Apparently the code is incomplete, so > if anyone has any ideas, let me know. Should I scrap the custom code for > uploading and use Paperclip or another plugin? Remember, this is Rails > 2.0.2. > > Thank you, Matt, Dean, and Kerry, for trying. > > Scott > > > -- Peter Gumeson [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
