C# MVC3 File Input html control-Potential Issue

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I have a file upload control, when users hit browse and select the file residing on their machine. After that I have a button which posts back to an action method and parses through the file and the populates a few fields in the model on the page. Then they hit the save button and It saves the files since I persist the file path in a hidden field. My problem is in my local development environment everything works fine. When I deploy it on a server, The code does not parse the file. Is it possible that the file is not being parsed because server cannot directly open and read a file which exists on users machine?

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Might want to check permissions.

Chris Gessler
– Chris Gessler

2012-06-22 19:44:24 +00:00
Commented Jun 22, 2012 at 19:44 — Chris Gessler
– Chris Gessler, Commented Jun 22, 2012 at 19:44

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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Is it possible that the file is not being parsed because server cannot directly open and read a file which exists on users machine?

Exactly. If you want to save the file, save it during the first post. You can't just read up a file from the user's computer from a webpage.

Edit:

Check this answer about how to do file upload in MVC3: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5193851/618331

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answered Jun 22, 2012 at 19:52

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user1475788 Over a year ago

Ahhh Ok, What I was doing was providing the parser the exact filename from the file upload input box

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