gaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.......................

i have tried in vain to save files that are uploaded with my cgi script. im using the multipart/form-data in the HTML script and i have tried using cgi.pm (and not using it), but i only manage to create the file not write to it. that is, the file i create is always 0 bytes big.

it creates the file correctly with the right parameters,but like i said, its always 0 bytes in size.....what am i missing here ?

ps: im using cgi.pm 2.74 and perl 5.005
pps: the HD is not full
pps: here is an extract from my code: on the recieving end 

my $file = $q->param("uploaded_file") || error($q,"No file received");
my $type = $q->uploadInfo($file)->{'Content-Type'};
my $buffer = "";
my $type =~ s!^image/([a-zA-Z]+)$!$1!;

sysopen (OUTFILE,UPLOAD_DIR . $file, O_CREAT | O_EXCL);  
while ($bytesread=read($file,$buffer,1024)) {
  print OUTFILE $buffer;
}

CLOSE OUTFILE;

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sigh..im obviously missing something here, but i cant find it....any help appriciated.

regards
kenneth johansen
kennethj@stud.cs.uit.no

Edit: chipmunk 2001-08-16

In reply to saving a file uploaded with cgi...this is driving me insane. by Anonymous Monk

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