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Bug 23485 - The 'path.substr(0, 12) == "C:\\fakepath\\"' check will cause the result to be incorrect in a legacy user agent if the file truly is located at "C:\fakepath\foo\bar.txt"
Summary: The 'path.substr(0, 12) == "C:\\fakepath\\"' check will cause the result to b...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-10-12 00:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-11-13 22:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-10-12 00:13:08 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#fakepath-srsly
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#fakepath-srsly
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
The 'path.substr(0, 12) == "C:\\fakepath\\"' check will cause the result to be
incorrect in a legacy user agent if the file truly is located at
"C:\fakepath\foo\bar.txt"

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-10-13 21:02:03 UTC 
Yeah. Not clear that we can do anything about that, though.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-11-13 22:42:52 UTC 
WONTFIX, per comment 1. Reopen if you can find a solution; I don't see one.