Uploading files via jQuery, object FormData is provided and no file name, GET request

Question

I am using a jQuery script to upload files to a new page. It somehow works too, but the issue is that it sends the form data as object FormData.

Here i

Answer 1

Files cannot be uploaded with the GET method. You need to use POST.

$.ajax({
   method: 'POST',
   url: '/test/file_capture',
   // ...

Also, you need HTML 5 to be able to upload files (though Firefox might allow it with earlier XHTML).