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I want to give the user possibility to paste an image into a webform. I don’t need to display the image, all I need is the image’s location.
I know it’s possible because the guys at CKEditor(and other editors) are doing it.
If you go here, http://ckeditor.com/demo and paste an image you copied and then right click on it and go to image properties you’ll see they have the image’s address.
How can this be done?
Thanks
It is not possible because giving a browser the possibility to access local files, which have not been added to be uploaded explicitly by the user, opens a variety of very dangerous security holes that would certainly be super-exploited by hackers.
A good solution would be to give the posibility to upload using Ajax and link the images in the document once they are available in the server.
Take a look at “Sending files using a FormData object” part of the Using XMLHttpRequest document at Mozilla Developer Network.