get filepath for FTP upload

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Hi Guys,

Can anyone advise on how to get get a file's filepath via a form?

I am working on using a form to allow a user to select a file, then the app uses FTP to transfer the file to the server.

As part of ftp you must supply it the location/filepath of your file.

Any help would be appreciated!

Cheers

Adam

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forgot to mention, I am using the form element 'file_field' - which does return a filepath - but not really!

eg., say my file lived in: /my/files/burger.jpg

but the information in the 'file_field' is stored as:

--- !ruby/object:ActionController::UploadedStringIO content_type: image/jpeg original_filename: burger.jpg original_path: burger.jpg

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forgot to mention, I am using the form element 'file_field' - which
does return a filepath - but not really!

eg., say my file lived in: /my/files/burger.jpg

You need to write out the content of the upload to a file on disk
somewhere and then do your ftp thingie.

Fred

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hi Fred,

i am using ftp because it apparently can hangle file transfers > 2gb (unlike the limits of http uploads / apache).

Any ideas?

Thanks

Adam

Frederick Cheung wrote:

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hi Fred,

i am using ftp because it apparently can hangle file transfers > 2gb (unlike the limits of http uploads / apache).

Oh, you want the users' browser to ftp the file over to your server?
that doesn't seem very likely. I believe what the browser tells the server about fileuploads is
dependant on browsers - some give a full path, others don't

Fred

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Hi Fred

Yeah that's what i would like to do! Good to know that it is browser dependent Thanks for your help!

Adam

Frederick Cheung wrote: