Hi, I cannot reproduce your problem here. Only the filename (without path) is send here:
% perl -MHTTP::Request::Common -e "print POST('http://127.0.0.1', content_type => 'multipart/form-data', content => [ filecontent => ['/dev/null'] ])->as_string" POST http://127.0.0.1 Content-Length: 119 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=xYzZY --xYzZY Content-Disposition: form-data; name="filecontent"; filename="null" Content-Type: text/plain --xYzZY-- and with LWP::UserAgent as well: % nc -l -p 8000 & % perl -MLWP::UserAgent -MHTTP::Request::Common -e 'LWP::UserAgent->new->request( POST("http://127.0.0.1:8000/", content_type => "multipart/form-data", content => [filecontent => ["/dev/null"]] ) )' POST / HTTP/1.1 TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3 Connection: TE, close Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 User-Agent: libwww-perl/5.820 Content-Length: 119 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=xYzZY --xYzZY Content-Disposition: form-data; name="filecontent"; filename="null" Content-Type: text/plain --xYzZY-- What do these output on your computer? Is the path still included? Regards, Ansgar -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libwww-perl depends on: ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.60-1 collection of modules that parse H ii libhtml-tagset-perl 3.20-2 Data tables pertaining to HTML ii libhtml-tree-perl 3.23-1 represent and create HTML syntax t ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages libwww-perl recommends: ii libcompress-zlib-perl 2.015-1 Perl module for creation and manip pn libhtml-format-perl <none> (no description available) ii libmailtools-perl 2.04-1 Manipulate email in perl programs Versions of packages libwww-perl suggests: ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 1.22-1 Perl module implementing object or -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org