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AJAX file upload

There is no clean way to do this but there are some decent workarounds.

The global way is a hidden iframe form submission all dynamically created with JS.

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/010522.htm

The two others are cleaner but browser specific:

http://www.captain.at/ajax-file-upload.php

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/AJAXUpload.asp

SOAP has base64binary and unsignedbyte[]

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One Response to “AJAX file upload”

  1. Ben S. Says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 8:42 am

    These all require either an IE activex object or special permissions… they won’t work in the real world…
    I still haven’t found any way to fill my use case: clicking on an image to popup the file chooser and upload the file to the server (i.e. without the ugly “file upload” input shown on the page at all).

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