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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 6, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handling-an-html5-drag-n-drop-upload/189734 "2010-06-06T15:34:25Z")\
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**Author:**  [@fipa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fipa)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handling-an-html5-drag-n-drop-upload/189734/1 "2010-06-06T15:34:25Z")
Hi,
I’ve started implementing an html5 drag n’ drop upload feature. It’s to
the point where the file is being uploaded and on the server-side I can
fetch the filename with request.env[‘HTTP\_X\_FILE\_NAME’], but how to save
the file content?
In which parameter is it located? I tried request.body, but it doesn’t
reproduce the initial file. I tried Base64 decoding also, but not luck?
Has anyone done work on that?
Thanks
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**Author:**  [@fipa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fipa)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/handling-an-html5-drag-n-drop-upload/189734/2 "2010-08-04T11:40:53Z")
Hi Fernando P.,
```
request.raw_post use this in controller you will be getting
```
the post data complete file content .
```
Then you can write the content in to the file and save in the
```
filesystem.
Thanks
Fernando P. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’ve started implementing an html5 drag n’ drop upload feature. It’s to
> the point where the file is being uploaded and on the server-side I can
> fetch the filename with request.env[‘HTTP\_X\_FILE\_NAME’], but how to save
> the file content?
>
> In which parameter is it located? I tried request.body, but it doesn’t
> reproduce the initial file. I tried Base64 decoding also, but not luck?
>
> Has anyone done work on that?
>
> Thanks