Microsoft Outlook 2007 - General Failure. The URL was: "<http:/something.com>". The parameter is incorrect

Question

Can anyone help me how to use this function below... This function will upload file into to my storage but unfortunately I didn't know how to use the code. i tried numerous times already but still it doesn't work. This code is not mine I got it from github and try to use it into my project.

public function upload(){

  // Check that the path is a directory
  if(is_file($this->path)){ 
    $this->status = "error";
    $this->message = "Path Not A Directory";
  }else{
    // Handle upload
    $target = $this->path  . "/" . basename($_FILES['upload']['name']); 
    if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'], $target)) {
      $this->status = "success";    
    }else{
      $this->status = "error";
      $this->message = "Upload Error";
    }          
  }
  $this->respond();        
}

<form action="file.php" method="get">
  <input type="hidden" name="action" value="upload" readonly>
  <input type="hidden" name="path" value="class/" readonly>
  <input type="file" name="upload" readonly>
  <!--  <input type="submit" name="create" class="btn btnsuccess btn-
                     sm" value="create dir/file ">
              <input type="submit" name="open" class="btn btn-success btn-sm" 
                      value="Open a file">
              -->
  <input type="submit" class="btn btn-success btn-sm" value="upload to specific dir">
  <!--  <input type="submit" name="modify" class="btn btn-success 
                      btn-sm" value="modify file or dir">
              <input type="submit" name="delete" class="btn btn-success btn-sm" 
                     value="delete file">
              <input type="submit" name="index" class="btn btn-success btn-sm" 
                     value="list dir">
              <input type="submit" name="dublicate" class="btn btn-success btn-
                    sm" value="duplicate"> -->
</form>

url: http://localhost/api/archiving%20system/file.php?action=upload&path=class%2F&upload=myfile.txt

OUtput: {"status":"error","message":"Upload Error"}

Solution

Fixed it.

Start IE from the desktop icon by right-clicking on it and start it without Add-ons. Then go in and disable any add-on (Manage Add-ons) that isn't what you would expect (i.e., leave stuff from Microsoft, Adobe enabled).

Then try opening a link from the email message. I found three add-ons that I disabled and it works. One was called "Research", one was an MSN Messenger add-on, and the other was a Disqus add-on.

This is in Windows XP. WIndows 7 is probably the same.

Comments

[Simon Peverett]

Turns out I can (and have) uninstall IE8 and it DID fix the problem. Especially as I am using Chrome as my default browser. There has to be a better way to fix this other than ditching IE8 though.

[Simon Peverett]

Well, uninstalling IE8 lasted about a day. Now the problem is back, and I have IE7!!!

[Simon Peverett]

To update. My IS department ran a mystery script that they would not show me the path to, and now it all works again. They don't like it when user's fix stuff themselves.

[ADyson]

can you link to where you got it from

[M. Eriksson]

"but still it doesn't work" - What happens? Do you get any response from the server? Error messages? Where is $this->path set? Is the path correct? Is it writable?

[Mawg says reinstate Monica]

Can you tell us how it is going wrong? Or why you juts don't find more code & try that? Did you breakpoint it in your IDE and step through it to see what went wrong?

[Mawg says reinstate Monica]

Do you have write access to the directory to which you want to move the files? See startutorial.com/articles/view/move_uploaded_file-faq I recall once having to change something in my Php.ini to get move_uploaded_file() to work, but I forget what. Google around, I am 99% sure that your problem is with move_uploaded_file() - and note that it might work on localhost, but not on your server, if they have different settings - which can make it more difficult to debug

[M. Eriksson]

Btw, is_file($this->path) is not enough of a check, since it will return true in case the path doesn't exist at all (which will make your move_uploaded_file() to fail).