rich:fileUpload not working without flash

Question

I am using rich:fileUpload for uploading multiple files. It works just fine when I have allowFlash="true" but, when I set allowFlash="false" it doesn't work anymore. It just doesn't do anything.

Could someone please help me understand why this doesn't work.

Answer 1

I had similar problem. There was an error in the server.log:

org.richfaces.exception.FileUploadException: Exception parsing multipart request: Request prolog cannot be read

The problem has something to do with Glassfish 3.1.2 (see the bug report ). The solution is to download web-core.jar from the top of the site and overwrite the old file in glassfish.

Answer 2

To solve this problem, simply add the following to your components.xml to disable the Seam multipart filter and the rich:fileUpload will work. Not sure if this will break any other Seam features.

web:multipart-filter disabled="true"