The following reply was made to PR config/5091; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], apache-bugdb@apache.org
Cc: Subject: Re: config/5091: Form handling: Upload = server error when no
file is specified
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 13:01:36 -0700
Hi,
You can close this bug listing (5091).
This ended up being a CGI.pm issue. I've identified it and fixed it, and sent
the following to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CGI.pm owner).
Thanks,
John
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CGI.pm version 1.19 1999/08/31
Apache 1.3.6, Linux 2.2.5-15 (Redhat 6.0 distrib). Perl 5.005
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Here's the bug:
I'm testing using a html & perl script pair of files that are commonly used
for file-upload. They are publicly available on:
http://www.terminalp.com/scripts/file_upload.shtml
When a file is specified, it will succeed by uploading the file and displaying
the results page.
However, if the filename is left blank, there is a server error,
and the apache log file indicates "premature end of script headers."
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Here's the fix:
in line 2862 of CGI.pm, change
unless (defined $filename) {
to
unless (defined $filename & $filename gt "") {
This works. Files are still uploaded, and it doesn't abort when a filename
isn't specified.
I only suspect that the problem was that the Netscape browser and/or Apache was
sending a filename that "existed", but was essentially NULL.
