Re: Screen Field Selected Data Lost When Submit Button clicked and screen error results

So in a case like this the value previously selected can't be put back
out to the screen when the errors are displayed, to avoid the user
having to reselect the same file again when he inputs the previously
missing data?

On Jan 27, 8:40 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:30 PM, hank23 <hversem...@stchas.edu> wrote:
> > I have a file upload screen coded and working, whenever I enter all of
> > the data (original file selected from the browse button; as well as
> > target file path and name entered in a separate textbox) at one time.
> > But when I leave the destination file field blank after selecting the
> > original file an error is returned saying the destination field needs
> > to be input, however when that error is returned to the screen the
> > file previously selected using the file field and browse button, is
> > not being returned with it. Why is my original file being dropped?
>
> It's a browser security measure. Browsers will not allow a web-server to
> specify an initial value for a file input field, since that could lead to
> malicious servers easily tricking people into uploading sensitive
> information from their machines.
>
> Karen
> --http://tracey.org/kmt/

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