The example is overly simplified because it is stripped down from a bigger script (to demonstrate my problem).

I will eventually be using ptkdb to figure out why the CGI::upload() method ($q->upload("filename")) doesn't seem to return a valid filehandle on WinXP (although the filename, when used as <$filename>, seems to work okay). Hmmm... maybe I should post that as a second question...

Setting up the CGI environment by hand at the command line to simulate a file upload is a task that I'm not at all interested in attempting ;)

Thanks, -Dave