[Zope3-Users] Uploading files

Stephan Richter srichter at cosmos.phy.tufts.edu
Thu Jun 1 08:53:32 EDT 2006


On Tuesday 30 May 2006 09:30, Stéphane Brault wrote:
>  for my application I mainly use sqlos and jsonserver, which means that I
> don't use much standard Zope components, I need to let users upload a file
> which I parse to update the database. I don't see how to upload files with
> AJAX. Is there a way or should I go another way. I must say I don't know
> how to do it the standard way.

While I hate AJAX with a passion, you could certainly do this. If JS has a way 
to access a local file once it has been selected, then you can use the 
XmlHttpRequest class to PUT the file on the server, for example. I certainly 
would not use JSON for this task.

Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training


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