Ryan -

No way you can do this.

Because the file originates on the client's machine, you can't touch it.

I suggest checking the file name before it comes in with a regex of some kind
(i.e. look for the '..') and pass back an error to the user if they are not uploading
what you want.

Possibly via Javascript - rather than server side.

Hope that helps.

Mark



> Ryan Carmody <carmodyryan@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When trying to upload a file with a period at the end of the file
> name (ex:
> txt file 'test.') CF throws this error:
>
> The path, 'c:\..\test..txt', is illegal. Path specifications cannot
> include
> '..'
>
> Besides telling our clients to come up with better file names, does
> anyone
> know how to trim the trailing period off either before of after the
> file is
> actually uploaded so the file on our server would be test.txt and not
> test..txt?
>
> TIA,
> Ryan
>
>
>
>
>
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