Also, does anyone know if there is a way to provide a filehandle instead of a path to the file...

According to 'perldoc CGI':
The filename returned is also a file handle. You can read the contents of the file using standard Perl file reading calls:

# Read a text file and print it out
while (<$filename>) {
   print;
}

# Copy a binary file to somewhere safe
open (OUTFILE,">>/usr/local/web/users/feedback");
while ($bytesread=read($filename,$buffer,1024)) {
   print OUTFILE $buffer;
}
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And you can get the MIME type, too.

$filename = $query->param('uploaded_file');
$type = $query->uploadInfo($filename)->{'Content-Type'};
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