The first problem is IE. Switch to a better browser like Firefox or
Opera. I believe they will also prevent this too, but you and the rest
of the world will be much better off using standards compliant browsers.
;) I use Firefox - that is not the problem here. There is also no reason to bitch about it because
we are talking unified corporate intranet environment and not internet.
Then why are you using a file input control? They are designed to
submit the file, not the file name and path, when the form is submitted.
Because it is the only easy way to read the path to a certain file. Just select the file and pass
the value of the field to a hidden field without uploading the file.
That is to prevent malicious websites accessing a users system. You
could try reducing the security level settings in IE, but it's not an
HTML question. The best solution is to have the user open the folder
themselves, since it's on their machine.0
That was already clear. Try to imagine a distributed system with hundreds of users storing redundant
25Mb+ files on a shared webserver over the Internet. That simply doesn't work. That's why we opted
to store the paths to certain directories on local interconnected networks using unified disk
mapping in the central database. A click on such link opened the folder to the user and took the
user directly to his/her project data.
Is there a way to circumvent this limitation
Knowing IE, there's probably a security hole you can exploit to do what
you want, but otherwise, no!
cause it renders a large part of our application useless??
That's what you get for poor design and implementation of the system.
I am in this business since 1994. Please do not bitch, read the explanation above ;)
Thanx
Yuri