Re: Re: cgi-perl

Ok, ill try to elaborate more. I already installed an apache server, for cgi and webserver. Now I want to build a website where people/public can submit their file.But this file need to be send to another server (not the webserver). So I was thinking to write a program in perl that opens tcp/ip conx when it is triggered by smt from the website to the destinated server. But I don't have any idea of where to start learning. Learned about how to create a tcp conx in perl but don't know how to continue then.

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Re: Re: Re: cgi-perl by liz (Monsignor) on Aug 07, 2003 at 10:11 UTC
So you have the following steps: get a file from a submitter send that file to another server About 1: I assume you already use Apache::Request to get the file into a temporary directory. So that leaves 2: the problem of sending the file to that other server. Is that other server also running a webserver? Or an FTP-server? Or what? If the other server is a web-server, why don't you post the result of your form there so that the file is stored there immediately? If that is not possible, and it is running a web-server that allows file uploads, the LWP::UserAgent should do the trik for you. If the other server is an FTP-server, then I guess Net::FTP would be something to look at. Hope this helps. Still not 100% sure what you're trying to do. Liz	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: cgi-perl by tja_ariani (Acolyte) on Aug 13, 2003 at 06:54 UTC
Hi, thanks a lot for ur help. But I'm still confused of which module should I start first from whether 1 or 2 first, and how to "trigger another script". Could you tell me some of the simple uploadscripts available? so that I can learn and build based on that	[reply]