Re: HTTP Headers Problem

Without seeing your code, it's difficult to guess exactly what is causing problems for you. Can you post a small piece of code that reproduces your problem?

Off the top of my head, some problems you might run into are:

Not encoding your data as multipart/form-data
The ? character before cmd=upload being escaped
The action value being specified incorrectly. Most browsers will cope with this beginning with www.page.com, but really you should use http://www.page.com

Also, you might find LWP+cgi file upload problems helpful.

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Re: Re: HTTP Headers Problem by gr0f (Acolyte) on Aug 27, 2001 at 18:15 UTC
No problem. Here is the actual HTML used in the page (I had to pull the other from memory since the website seems to be down ;), and the Perl code: `<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://www.environet.gov.on.ca/dwws-app/DWWS +App?cmd=UploadSubmPage.uploadSubm" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"> <input type="hidden" name="works_id" value="3253245"> <input type="hidden" name="lab_id" value="2435325"> <input type="file" name="filename"> </FORM>` [download] And the Perl code responsible: `$FileName = ("C:\\Scripts\\moe\\swap\\$LotNumber.txt"); my $request = POST ('http://www.environet.gov.on.ca/dwws-app/DWWSApp?c +md=UploadSubmPage.uploadSubm', Content_Type=> 'form-data', Content => [works_id=>'2353245', lab_id=>'456436', filename=>[$FileName]]);` [download] The '?' character being escaped sounds like it may be significant. Anyways, hope this helps... -Tim	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: HTTP Headers Problem
by gr0f (Acolyte) on Aug 27, 2001 at 18:15 UTC

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://www.environet.gov.on.ca/dwws-app/DWWS
+App?cmd=UploadSubmPage.uploadSubm" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">

<input type="hidden" name="works_id" value="3253245">
<input type="hidden" name="lab_id" value="2435325">
<input type="file" name="filename">

</FORM>
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$FileName = ("C:\\Scripts\\moe\\swap\\$LotNumber.txt");

my $request = POST ('http://www.environet.gov.on.ca/dwws-app/DWWSApp?c
+md=UploadSubmPage.uploadSubm',
Content_Type=> 'form-data',
Content => [works_id=>'2353245',
lab_id=>'456436',
filename=>[$FileName]]);
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-Tim

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