How to get the path of a file before its uploaded?

Question

I have an upload box...

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Answer 1

Sites like Facebook, etc, use signed Java applets for this sort of thing (to enable local file reading), and integrate the image upload into that. Technically, you'd be able to pass data between Java and Javascript to prime it for upload, but the whole thing'd be non-trivial :) Check out http://jumploader.com/ for something which might be of use.

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