[Typo3-dev] Bug on fileupload, recognizing abs pahtes on Win

[Kasper Skårhøj]

> "TYPO3 Core API" is not part of the public promoted documentation yet,
> so don't expect everybody to know about:
> 
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/Matrix/
> 


It was a part of the years-old documentation as well:

http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_inside/Customization/
 
(search long page for "uploadfolder" and you will find.)



> A Core API, that excludes the use of absolute pathes for fileuploads,
> hinders the administration of files in secure directories, that stay outside the 
> webserver, with the backend file browser.
> 
> There are more than one Extensions running into this constraint.
> 

OK, its a feature request then. But you can use .htaccess and symlinks
for now very easily and you should be safe.