Add the file to a formData object, and set the Content-Type header to multipart/form-data. var formData = new FormData(); var imagefile = document.querySelector(‘#file’); formData.append(“image”, imagefile.files[0]); axios.post(‘upload_file’, formData, { headers: { ‘Content-Type’: ‘multipart/form-data’ } })
Pure JS You can use fetch optionally with await-try-catch let photo = document.getElementById(“image-file”).files[0]; let formData = new FormData(); formData.append(“photo”, photo); fetch(‘/upload/image’, {method: “POST”, body: formData}); async function SavePhoto(inp) { let user = { name:’john’, age:34 }; let formData = new FormData(); let photo = inp.files[0]; formData.append(“photo”, photo); formData.append(“user”, JSON.stringify(user)); const ctrl = new AbortController() // … Read more
I agree with Greg that a two phase approach is a reasonable solution, however I would do it the other way around. I would do: POST http://server/data/media body: { “Name”: “Test”, “Latitude”: 12.59817, “Longitude”: 52.12873 } To create the metadata entry and return a response like: 201 Created Location: http://server/data/media/21323 { “Name”: “Test”, “Latitude”: 12.59817, … Read more
Some browsers have a security feature that prevents JavaScript from knowing your file’s local full path. It makes sense – as a client, you don’t want the server to know your local machine’s filesystem. It would be nice if all browsers did this.
OP here (I am answering this question after two years, the post made by Daniel Cerecedo was not bad at a time, but the web services are developing very fast) After three years of full-time software development (with focus also on software architecture, project management and microservice architecture) I definitely choose the second way (but … Read more
For security reasons browsers do not allow this, i.e. JavaScript in browser has no access to the File System, however using HTML5 File API, only Firefox provides a mozFullPath property, but if you try to get the value it returns an empty string: $(‘input[type=file]’).change(function () { console.log(this.files[0].mozFullPath); }); https://jsfiddle.net/SCK5A/ So don’t waste your time. edit: … Read more
Yes, you can use the File API for this. Here’s a complete example (see comments): document.getElementById(“btnLoad”).addEventListener(“click”, function showFileSize() { // (Can’t use `typeof FileReader === “function”` because apparently it // comes back as “object” on some browsers. So just see if it’s there // at all.) if (!window.FileReader) { // This is VERY unlikely, browser … Read more
You cannot set it to a client side disk file system path, due to security reasons. Imagine: <form name=”foo” method=”post” enctype=”multipart/form-data”> <input type=”file” value=”c:/passwords.txt”> </form> <script>document.foo.submit();</script> You don’t want the websites you visit to be able to do this, do you? =) You can only set it to a publicly accessible web resource as seen … Read more
You need to use the -F option: -F/–form <name=content> Specify HTTP multipart POST data (H) Try this: curl \ -F “userid=1” \ -F “filecomment=This is an image file” \ -F “image=@/home/user1/Desktop/test.jpg” \ localhost/uploader.php
Starting with Safari 5/Firefox 4, it’s easiest to use the FormData class: var data = new FormData(); jQuery.each(jQuery(‘#file’)[0].files, function(i, file) { data.append(‘file-‘+i, file); }); So now you have a FormData object, ready to be sent along with the XMLHttpRequest. jQuery.ajax({ url: ‘php/upload.php’, data: data, cache: false, contentType: false, processData: false, method: ‘POST’, type: ‘POST’, // … Read more