AJAX FILE UPLOAD - Uploading local files with AJAX/Javascript to a server Many people say uploading files with AJAX is impossible! Well, they're wrong :-) Granted this solution only works with FireFox/Mozilla. And the user has to change a setting in "about:config" and accept the advanced access privileges. Anyway, such an AJAX file upload is only suitable for restricted area stuff, such as Content Management Systems, Group-Ware etc., so users can be briefed before actually using it. FireFox/Mozilla settings: Open about:config and check that
is set to "true" Otherwise Firefox will display something like this
Also make sure you check the checkbox "Remember this decision", when FireFox will display this message
and click "Allow", otherwise you have to click "Allow" everytime you upload a file. The example itself is rather straightforward: We use some Components.classes and Components.interfaces stuff to open the local file from within FireFox/Mozilla - we read the file, construct our request body for the POST request and send the whole data with an AJAX "multipart/form-data" request. NOTE about encoding the local files: Since we also want to upload binary files, we need to encode (javascript "escape") the file content. This is basically encoding a string for use in an URL. On the server, after uploading the file we need to decode ("urldecode") the file. "escape" does not encode the plus sign "+", but on the server PHP's "urldecode" interprets any "+" and space. So we need an additional preg_replace to replace any "+" to the HEX value "%2B". This is a little annoying, since escaping large files (up to 1MB it is still fast) with javascript can hang the browser for a few seconds. The problem here is that the AJAX object XMLHttpRequest doesn't seem to be able to handle binary data. ADVANTAGES: If you upload images and process them on the server, it is common that the server stops the script due too much memory consumption and/or the runtime limit has been exceeded. In such a case PHP is just returning an error message ("Fatal error: memory limit exceeded" or "Fatal error: running too long" or whatever) and the user usually has to back up with the browser back button to repeat the procedure with a smaller image. With AJAX you can check the returned string for errors and if an error has occured, notify the user gracefully. A possible extension to this example would be: Let the user select a directory with a custom "directory-browser" or one file in a directory with the regular file-dialog as shown here, then parse the directory automatically for file with a certain extension and upload them in a bulk. LICENCE: As stated in the policy: The information provided on the websites of Captain's Universe is free for non-commercial, educational use. For commercial use of any of the information provided, contact the owner at the email address listed in the footer below. index.html
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hello,
I'm just starting to learn JS/ajax and I have one question (if you don't mind). How I can simulate server response on desktop for Ajax app? Is there a way? Thanks.
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