in reply to Re: Re: Re: CGI::Minimal does not work with enctype="multipart/form-data"?
in thread CGI::Minimal does not work with enctype="multipart/form-data"?

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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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: CGI::Minimal does not work with enctype="multipart/form-data"?
by relax99 (Monk) on Oct 24, 2002 at 12:42 UTC

    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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[d/l]

      Wonderful, thanks for telling that to us! Please send a bug report to CGI::Minimal's author.

      Ciao, Valerio

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        Well, is it really a bug or is it the intended behavior? I consider my knowledge of Perl to be intermediate, so I'm cautious to imply that he didn't indend that to happen. I did email him with the original description of the problem to the email I found in CGI::Minimal docs, but I haven't received a response.

        Btw, below is a piece of discussion from comp.lang.perl.misc:

        I wrote:
        - As soon as I add enctype="multipart/form-data" to my form tag, my script that uses CGI::Minimal never finishes. I know the problem is in CGI::Minimal, because CGI.pm and direct read from STDIN work just fine.

        Someone replied:
        - Why? Because it works one but not on the other? That's not a firm argument. Perhaps it is in your code! CGI::Minimal has proved to me to be a fine piece of code. I recommend you don't vent your opinion in this way to the CGI::Minimal author.

        To sum it up, I'm glad I can keep using CGI::Minimal

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