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Re: [EP-tech] upload() does not take absolute paths
From: "Roman Chyla" <roman.chyla AT gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:50:14 +0200
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*** ↵ http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/id/%3Cea0115e90805061050t3a3e2f17jf7af26e73439c1d9%40mail.gmail.com%3E *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Tim Brody <tdb01r AT ecs.soton.ac.uk> ↵ wrote: > *** > ↵ http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/id/%3C48206DF8.6000501%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%3E > *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ > > Roman Chyla wrote: > > > *** > ↵ http://www.eprints.org/tech.php/id/%3Cea0115e90805020852g462f09b0q704763a46b9d6862%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/ > > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am importing files into Eprints and the method upload() complains > > that the file starts with slash. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe I > > should use something else for automatic data imports? > > Other than? > > > > while(my ($key, $value) = each(%$fields)) { > > $eprint->set_value( $key, $value); > > } > > > > Note, when I do chdir() and pass a filepath with a relative name, ↵ than > > EPrints imports happily (so it is no security measure against some ↵ web > > attacks). Otherwise, one would expect that absolute paths are OK with > > imports. > > > > > Hi Roman, > > The filename argument to upload() is just to *name* the file. It is ↵ expect > to be either just the filename (no embedded slashes) or a relative path ↵ with > $preserve_path enabled. Hi Tim, Many thanks for the reply. Oddly enough, it worked with the upload(). I have only experienced strange behaviour on one machine for some files and not the others (with the same script and the same data) but this can be something else which I need to investigate. > > You should strip any leading pathing from the filename as the data is ↵ read I see now, I missed that 'detail' too > from the filehandle. Alternatively use the add_file() wrapper method that > takes a directory + filename. Cheers, roman > > Cheers, > Tim. > >
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