in reply to Uploading Multiple Files

I'm very confused about what you are trying to do here. You do realize that the file upload mechanism is a way for the client (browser) to send a file to the server, right? It looks to me like you are attempting to use it to send a file to the client.

Also, there would be no good reason to have the line my $req = new CGI; inside a loop like that.

Can you explain exactly what you are hoping to accomplish?

-sauoq
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Re: Re: Uploading Multiple Files
by cal (Beadle) on Sep 27, 2002 at 20:45 UTC
    I want to send a pre-defined list of files to a server.
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      I'm afraid might be in a dead end here. I don't think the server can request just any file from the client, that would be like a MAJOR security breach (f.ex. every server would have a file upload, which would discard the name and upload /etc/passwd or the Windows registry or something).

      I think the uploaded file's name is in the request that the client sends, and if I remember correctly, the uploaded file comes next. I don't think the webserver is even allowed to say anything before the entire file is uploaded, and therefore you can't request a file that way, but I'm on very thin ice here. Anyway, it sounds very dangerous to me.

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      The server can't tell the client what files to send. (Hopefully not, at least.) As fsn points out, that would be a huge gaping security hole.

      -sauoq
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