Other Question - RE: Help - Newbie questions - where are the uplo aded files stored ?

[MATHOT Jacques <ja...@eurocontrol.int>]

Hello,

Thanks a lot for the information and the link to the upload handling. So far it works very well, uploading the files in a temp directory.
The purpose is to upload archive for specific users (after authentication) in the archive directory of the application (called icaoref); consequently i would like to have those files stored in icaoref/archives instead of the temp directory.
But so far I do not succeed to do it.

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Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Jacques Mathot

-----Original Message-----
From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:Yoav.Shapira@mpi.com] 
Sent: vendredi 10 septembre 2004 14:54
To: Tomcat Users List; Arun Prasad R
Subject: RE: Help - Newbie questions - where are the uploaded files stored ?



Hi,
Both this and the original poster's intent are pretty bad as far as portability goes.

First, instead of re-inventing the wheel, use a good and proven componet for upload handling, like commons-fileupload (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload/using.html).

Second, know that the Servlet Specification guarantees only one place where you can write files: the directory accessible via
(File) getServletContext().getAttribute("javax.servlet.context.tempdir").

If you want another directory, set it as an init-parameter to your upload servlet or your servlet context, or maybe even a JNDI Environment reference.  Don't rely on the concept of "current working directory" as that's wildly different from one server implementation to another, and it's highly insecure.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium Research Informatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arun Prasad R [mailto:findarunhere@gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 8:00 AM
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>Subject: Re: Help - Newbie questions - where are the uploaded files
stored
>?
>
>hi
>
>you can set a session property like System.setProperty("user.dir", 
>"/your/application/home"); this will change the applications current 
>working dir.
>
>i have not checked the side effects. whether tomcat will be affected by 
>this action or not arun
>
>On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:00:45 +0200, MATHOT Jacques 
><ja...@eurocontrol.int> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am implementing an upload function for my web applications using
Tomcat
>4.0.14 server. I was expecting the files to be stored on the root
directory
>of my application and not in one of the own Tomcat directories.
>> How can I specify that the directory to be used is my application
root
>directory ?
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Regards,
>> Jacques Mathot
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