I have been asked lately by a few my colleague why they got C:\fakepath after they upload a file or picture to a website in Internet Exlorer, namely Craiglist as one of them. After a bit of research, the mystery was unveiled.
According to the specifications of HTML5, a file upload control should not reveal the real local path to the file you have selected, if you manipulate its value string with JavaScript. Instead, the string that is returned by the script, which handles the file information is c:\fakepath.
This requirement is already implemented in Internet Explorer 8 – the real path to the file will be shown only if the page that contains the control is added to the trusted sites collection of the browser.
Note that this C:\fakepath doesn’t only happen on IE, but on IE 9 as well.
To get around it, you can either add the websites you are working with to the Trusted Sites list.
Or turn off the option called “Include local directory path when uploading files to a server”.
And obviously, adding the sites to the trusted sites list is highly recommended. Changing the custom level breaches the security level in IE, which may cause other issues down the road.
The interesting part is that this issue isn’t new and why all of sudden it happens now. Since it’s something to do with HTML 5 and JavaScript, I guess it’s just there are more and more sites starting to take advantage of these cool things.
In this article please correct “customer level” to “Custom Level”
Thanks for pointing it out. I’ve corrected it.
Cheers.
I have tried this work around without succes at least with g-mail
thanks alot it is working now
Yes it works
Thank you
no longer correct the issue
Maybe, the control embedded in the page that asking for uploading file has a different Url that needs to be added into the Trusted list as well?
Not Working for googlechrome
have u got any other option.
it worked for me., but there has to be something in the wp theme (ask me) that I can fix, because its not working for me in chrome..
What is it?
Does not work for me I checked that my settings were as you described however they were the same as you described C:\FakePath still happens in all my browsers trying to update my wifi router and my other devices.
have u got any other option.
the problem is fixed.thanks a lot..
have u tried in chrome?bcz its not working for me in chrome..
Can someone help me with a picture? I’m trying to find someone but this is all too technical for me