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Thanks a lot for the example! I had something similar in my code, but I did make another script file with what you gave me and it still didn't run :( Are you using a Unix system? I'm on Windows 2000. I'm wondering if that's why I'm having problems, but then why does CGI.pm work just fine for me?

I could only get CGI::Minimal to finish running if I set CGI::Minimal::max_read_size to no more than 300 bytes, but then the script obviously doesn't read the entire content of the form.

I don't like to give up on anything, but in this case it seems CGI::Minimal just has problems and I'm not sure I want to spend too much of my time on it. Sounds like I need to switch back to CGI.pm

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Re: Re: Re: CGI::Minimal does not work with enctype="multipart/form-data"?
by valdez (Monsignor) on Oct 21, 2002 at 11:59 UTC

    You are welcome :) I'm using a Linux system, with CGI::Minimal version 1.09 and perl v5.6.0. And you? Can you post some code?

    Ciao, Valerio

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      I'm using CGI::Minimal version 1.09. I used ppm to install it, just tried reinstalling it - didn't help. My perl is ActiveState distribution (v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread). I'm using a Windows 2000 Professional system with IIS webserver installed on it.

      I have just tried running the code you gave me - still doesn't finish. And below is the code I used for tests before:

      To test file upload using CGI.pm - successful

      # to test form upload using CGI.pm - works fine!
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "<body><html>\n";
my $fh = $cgi->upload("file1");
print <$fh>;
print "</body></html>\n";
exit(0);

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      To test file upload using CGI::Minimal - does't work!

      # to test form upload
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Minimal;
my $cgi = CGI::Minimal->new;

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "<body><html>\n";
print $cgi->param("file1");
print "</body></html>\n";
exit(0);

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      Below is html for the form

      <html>
<head>
<title>CGI::Minimal test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/cgi-bin/upload.pl" method
+="post">
<input type="file" name="file1">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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        I figured out my problem. In order to my CGI::Minimal work on my Windows 2000 system I need to initialize $cgi object this way:

        binmode STDIN; # CGI::Minimal will freeze without it with multipart/fo
+rm-data forms
my $cgi = CGI::Minimal->new;

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        Once you do that, it works like a charm.

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