OK so I wrote a cgi page that up loads an excel xls spread sheet, to convert to html, but when I call Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ($fh,$converter) I always get the Cannot open data as Zip archive at Spreadsheet/XLSX.pm line 28

However if I ftp the file to the linux server then open it with Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ($file, $converter), it works fine. Why?

First the web code:

my $converter = Text::Iconv->new("utf-8","windows-1251");
if ( !$excelFile ){
        die "Need a file name to upload";
} # end if no file name
open($fh, "+>", undef) or
    die "Failed to write tempFile \n";
binmode($fh);
while ($bytesread = read($excelFile, $buffer, $num_bytes)) {
    print $fh $buffer;
} # end while
seek($fh,0,0);
my $excel = Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ($fh,$converter);
#(convert to html here)

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Now the command line version

my $file = shift @ARGV;
 my $converter = Text::Iconv->new("utf-8","windows-1251");
my $excel = Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new ($file, $converter);
die "open failed" unless $excel;
#(convert to html here)

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I also tried uploading and copying to a file, then using its name as an argument to "Spreadsheet::XLSX -> new" Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks & Regards Tom Bodine

In reply to Spreadsheet::XLS chokes on CGI uploads by tbodine88

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