How to upload a file from a user's desktop to a web server?

[srini]

Hi all,

I am writing a HTML/CGI perl script to attach a file from a HTML
submit form and to store that attachment in a tmeporary variable on
the web server that hosts the perl script.

snippet of code:

HTML part:
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<tr><td colspan="2"> <FONT color=black>Attachment (if any):</FONT><BR>
<INPUT type="file" size=50 name="attachedfile" ALLOW="text/*">
</td></tr>
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Perl code:
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$attachedFile = $query -> param ("attachedfile");
# $attachedFile =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
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Now I want to capture the file attachment from a user's desktop and
upload it into a temp variable on the web server. I tired to use
fielfield() and tmpFileName() functions, but in vain.

Can some boby kindly tell me how my perl code should be modified so
that I can store the $attachedFile in to $temp variable on the web
server?

Thanks in advance,
Srini

 

[Tore Aursand]

Can some boby kindly tell me how my perl code should be modified so that
I can store the $attachedFile in to $temp variable on the web server?

Read the documentation for the CGI.pm module. You could also do a search
on this group (using Google). This question has been answered multiple
times in the past.