Where is the file data for a flow.js upload? - javascript

I'm building an uploader into my web page and trying to use flow.js as my uploading tool. On the server-side I have a WCF service with a generic handler as the target for my uploader. I do get the uploader to send a request to the handler, and when I inspect the contents, I get just the query string, but not the actual file content. Or at least I don't know where it is.
Looking at Fiddler I can see that the server call was a GET with a query string of parameters. I don't see the file content there either. What am I missing?

I was trying to use ng-flow which is based off of flow.js. A quick trip to flow.js github (https://github.com/flowjs/flow.js) and I realized that the GET is a test to get chunks for your files initialized, then the POST with the file chunks is sent. If you don't care for chunking, then set option 'testChunks' to false when doing your flow-init. Like this:
<html flow-init="{target:'SomeFileHandler.ashx',testChunks:false}">
Doing this you will only receive the POST with the file. Hope this helps someone in the future! I may edit this later when I decided to handle chunks. Also, I did find an ASP.NET MVC implementation that may be an interesting read here:
https://github.com/DmitryEfimenko/FlowJs-MVC

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How can I provide the user of a web-app with a download-link to programmatically created data in AngularDart?
I thought this would be an easy task, since the download of data could be handled via data-links. But it turns out that AngluarDart doesn't let me use data-links since they are considered unsecure. In a pure Javascript environment I would use Filesaver.js, but also this is not possible with AngularDart (at least I didn't find a way to use it there).
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I don't use Flutter and also I need this to work in the browser. So File from dart:io is no solution for me (this will be one of the first things you find, when searching for a solution). Also it is no solution to save the file to the server and download it to the client.

Send File location from javascript to Asp.net Controller

I am using a file input to let the user upload a file which is to be attached later on at the controller level to an email. I am extending an application and the email class that already exists takes the path of the file as a string. Is there a way to pass the file from javascript (i know that browsers cant get full path for security reasons) and once i have the file on the aspnet web api 2 controller to get the filepath there?
I am not sure if code is really needed here so i will omit that for now unless requested for a specific reason.
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Need to do bulk file upload in JavaScript

I have a little bit of an unusual situation I guess. I have a page for placing new orders and part of a new order is a variable (0-n) number of files that are to be uploaded and associated with the order on the back end. The user also needs to specify a description for each file.
I've used a couple jQuery upload plug-ins with great success, but in this case I'm not looking to upload a single file when the user hits "OK." What I really need to do is upload a file by passing a local path to some method that will do the upload.
Does anyone know of any plug-ins that do this?
Thanks!
Ajax Uploader could be helpful? I believe it allows multiple uploads.

HTML-Javascript - Filechooser showing only server-side files

I hope the following isn't too tricky.
I have a simple html button. Now I want to open a filechooser as soon as a user clicks on this button.
I do this like the following:
$('.button').click(function()
{
$('<input type="file"/>').attr('value');
});
This opens a filechooser, but I want this file-chooser to only show files on the server, not on the client. I've searched the net but couldn't find an adequate solution so far.
Any proposals are welcome :)
Impossible, sorry. You'd need to use server side code to make a tool that allows the end user to browse the server's files.
The file input is used for the end user to choose file(s) on their machine. It has no knowledge of the server's files.
It's not tricky, but you can't use Input tag for it. The steps are:
Create a module to traverse the directory on your server and output is a JSON format in whatever server implementation that you choose
Create a REST endpoint to give the browser the JSON output from step #1
Use AJAX to call this REST webservice and get the directory listings
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http://gusc.lv/jquery/gcmedia.html
With a server-side scripts that outputs a list of the files you want to make browseable.

How to download file given raw data?

I have a web service call that returns {"data": BINARYDATA}. How can I pop up a dialog to download the file based on only those binary data? It could be a file of any type. I'm probably looking for a Javascript function, or maybe a browser-specific function? Thanks.
EDIT: I am checking to see how the data are encoded. Will update soon with that (important) information.
EDIT 2: I investigated Using HTML5/Javascript to generate and save a file . Thank you for the referral.
My main problem with the dataURI method is that my files are larger than 256kB
Resolved:
The answer is that this is not a good client-side task (particularly when dealing with large files). It's much better to change the server-side code to return the appropriate HTTP response (with headers) instead of JSON.
Thanks everyone for your help in the comments.

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