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  • Why don't file uploads work during async postbacks?

    As many people have noticed in their AJAX-enabled pages, file uploads do not work when doing an async postback. To my knowledge there's no way to support this scenario due to the browser's security restrictions. To understand why the upload doesn't work it's important to understand how async postbacks are performed and how that's different from how the browser performs a regular postback.