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Am trying to upload a file using HTML5's DnD and File API. Am not to sure how to send form data to the server, i tried to send using XMLHttpRequest but was not successful. This what i have so far.
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<br />
<div id="drop_area">Drop files here</div> <br />
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click" Text="Button"/>
</form>
</body>
<script>
if (window.File && window.FileList && window.FileReader) {
var dropZone = document.getElementById('drop_area');
dropZone.addEventListener('dragover', handleDragOver, false);
dropZone.addEventListener('drop', handleDnDFileSelect, false);
}
else {
alert('Sorry! this browser does not support HTML5 File APIs.');
}
</script>
var files;
function handleDragOver(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
event.preventDefault();
var dropZone = document.getElementById('drop_zone');
dropZone.innerHTML = "Drop now";
}
function handleDnDFileSelect(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
event.preventDefault();
/* Read the list of all the selected files. */
files = event.dataTransfer.files;
/* Consolidate the output element. */
var form = document.getElementById('form1');
var data = new FormData(form);
for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
data.append(files[i].name, files[i]);
}
var xhr = XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "Upload.aspx"); //Wrong ? not sure.
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "multipart/form-data");
xhr.send(data);
}
C#:
HttpFileCollection fileCollection = Request.Files;
for (int i = 0; i < fileCollection.Count; i++)
{
HttpPostedFile upload = fileCollection[i];
string filename ="c:\\Test\\" + upload.FileName;
upload.SaveAs(filename);
}
I know i have a button in the UI, as of now am not using. But as you can see am trying to send a request using XMLHttpRequest. Can anyone suggest me how can i proceed further. But my server side code never get executed am not sure whether XMLHttpRequest was successful.
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Jeezzz!! Its works fine in IE, i was testing in Chrome v 28 since few days. In IE file gets uploaded fine. (tested multiple file uploads). So to make it work in Chrome i had to make few changes. * Mistakes made
In chrome While debugging client-side i found that var xhr = XMLHttpRequest() throws an error, "dom object constructor cannot be called as a function" So replaced it with
var xhr=new XMLHttpRequest(); and removed xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "multipart/form-data"); (Not sure why but xhr.send() results in ispostback value to be false?? )
Comments are appreciated. Link to full code: http://programmingusingdotnet.blogspot.com/2013/08/aspnet-drag-and-drop-file-uploads-using.html
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