219470 - input type="file" does not send the full path

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[Alexander Bussman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030914 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030914 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

If I create a form (HTML) so that users can upload a file.
I do that with input="file" to get a browser button there, but then when I send
the text that appears in the textbox after a selection the "reciever" get the
filename without the path.
Example: 
Sending filename: /home/foo/pics/nicepic.jpg
Recieving: nicepic.jpg

--- example "code" to demonstrate this: ----
<from action="doit.php" method="POST">
<input type="file" name="image"></br>
<input type="submit" value="Send it!">

in doit.php:
echo $image;


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Look in the details section :)
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Actual Results:  
Missing the path to the file

Expected Results:  
The fullpath should be shown (I guess)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is done on purpose, as a security measure.

Comment 2

[timeless]

vrfy invalid

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 287399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 313364 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 305619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

The last few dups turned out to be dups of bug 405630 rather than this bug.  (The difference is that this bug is about what is sent to the server when the form is submitted, whereas bug 405630 is about reading the .value property using JavaScript.)