213077 - Problem with the submission of a form which contains a input type file

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 59408

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[igor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I have a form with a input type file. 
When i put a long file name like "D:\mozilla\defaults\messenger\mailViews.dat"
and i submit it i only find a short name like here "mailViews.dat".



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a form with an action post
2.Create a <input type="file" name="toto">
3.Load the page and enter a long file name like "X:\Dir1\Dir2\Dir3\file1"
3.Submit the form to php file
4.Display the variable $toto.
5.It contains only the name without the directory here "file1"

Actual Results:  
The variable doesn't contain all the name.

Expected Results:  
Cut the variable of the name of the file.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

This is for security reasons.  See bug 143220 comment 5
dupe of bug 59408

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59408 ***