[Zope-CMF] Automated Image Upload

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 21:24:40 +0100


Joshua Lanza writes:
 > I have an HTML editor that lets users do some basic content editing and
 > formatting, and I need it to support drag and drop for images. The
 > problem, of course, is the image upload. I'm afraid that I'm going to
 > get into ActiveX land soon, because the input type=file object only
 > allows upload when the user browses to the file to be uploaded (for
 > obvious security reasons). Has anyone out there come up with a solution
 > to this one? They must have at M$, because MSCMS handles this, and I
 > don't recall that they used ActiveX to do it. 
I recently read about an XML-RPC implementation in JavaScript (--> Google
search). This would allow you to upload images from JavaScript
through XML-RPC.


Dieter