At 10:36 PM 05/10/2002, Chad Wallace wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've been trying to get a file upload to work. I was first using CGI.pm, but it was
>giving me problems, and I couldn't figure it out.
>
>I decided to switch to CGI::Lite, and the uploads seemed to work. However, they
>never were working. The $form->{'upload'} variable was simply returning the name of
>the file on the client machine, which just happened to be the server machine... so
>when I opened the file, it was opening the original file, and bypassing the upload
>entirely. Of course, when I then tried to upload something from another machine, it
>wouldn't work.
>
>Now, I changed my script to use a filehandle instead of a filename, and put in
>"$cgi->set_file_type('handle')" before the parse_form_data... But it still returns
>the CLIENT-SIDE FILENAME in $form->{'upload'}, which gives an error when I try to use
>it as a filehandle!!
>
>'upload' is the name of my <input type=file>. Is there another, undocumented, method
>to access the filehandles of uploaded files?
>
>Any ideas here?
There's a working example of a file upload script using CGI at
www.gossland.com/course/cgi_use/uploading.html
Perhaps it'll show you what you are missing.
HTH,
Mike G
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