I have tried to upload my avatar but in the box where you specify which image you want to upload the real path doesn’t appear. There is a certein “fakepath” in the box and I don’t manage to upload my avatar. What is the problem???
I don’t find the real path in which is saved the image on my computer. In the path it’s written C:fakepathimage.
fakepath in the url??? certainly we dont do that…
is this IE? I seem to remember that being caused by a security setting in IE… not online and answering from phone, so can you do a search here for fakepath and see if that turns up one other ticket on think we had on this and the IE setting?
Yes – the only reference we have come across to this ‘fakepath’ so far stems from IE. See this thread here: https://simple-press.com/support-forum/sp5-general-topics/cant-upload-or-change-avatar/
As I understand it is it an HTML5 standard to NOT show the real path to the browser/server but I also understood that it should not effect the actual upload process. A very quick google of ‘fakepath’ seems to suggest that there are some major issues being experienced with this security setting all the same.
So – what environment is this? OS and Browser?
Actually – did you ever go ahead and upload the file? It should be fine you know…
chrome does the fakepath security thing too… but everything says it should work… the fake path can be turned off in the chrome settings too
Odd – I just replaced my avatar on this site using Chrome with the ‘fakepath’ in the url and it uploaded with no problem. As, indeed, it should. The ‘fakepath’ is simply a mechanism to prevent the actual path being sent to the browser in plain text and thus potentially made available. So – any message? do we know if there are other reasons for an upload to fail?
such as…. how big is the avatar (file size and image size)? have you checked the server error log for more info?
when I started this topic I thought that the problem was with “fakepath”, now I realized that the problem was with the size of the image as @Mr Papa asked me. Now it works fine ! Thanks you a lot