#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI; use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser ); use File::Basename; my $safe_filename_characters = "a-zA-Z0-9_.-"; my $upload_dir = "/upfiles"; my $query = new CGI; my $filename = $query->param("file"); my ( $name, $path, $extension ) = fileparse ( $filename, '\..*' ); $filename = $name . $extension; $filename =~ tr/ /_/; $filename =~ s/[^$safe_filename_characters]//g; if ( $filename =~ /^([$safe_filename_characters]+)$/ ) { $filename = $1; } else { die "Filename contains invalid characters"; } my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("file"); open ( UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename" ) or die "$!"; while ( <$upload_filehandle> ) { print UPLOADFILE "$_"; } close UPLOADFILE; ##this is the only way to send msg back to the client print ""; exit;