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Project showing HTML5 clipboard API

This is an Eclipse project that shows how to upload an image file to server by pasting it in a browser. This has been tested with Chrome.

*** Using the application *** Deploy the application to a Java EE server like Tomcat.

Open the URL: http://localhost:8080/PasteTest/

Copy an image into the clip board.

Click on the grey box of the web page and then paste the image.

You should see a confirmation dialog showing where the server has saved the image file.