Hello, long-time lurker, first time poster here. I've been having an issue with my CGI script to upload files to a web server. I think that I may have a handle on what the issue is, but I'm not quite sure.

I don't have a great grasp of technical definitions, so I'll try to explain what's happening. I have a CGI script that prints an html form that takes in a few parameters, which recently includes a "file" input. It then passes the information to another CGI script to validate the information, which then gets passed to yet another to post everything. This is mostly legacy code, and input data comes from many different places. What I am running is mostly a slightly modified version of this excellent script: I need a simple web upload script. The major difference is that there is no email that is sent.

The file is getting created in the correct directory, but there is never any data passed along. I've been afraid that passing the file two times has somehow transferred the data from being a file to just the file title in a string. Does anyone have any thoughts? I can provide any code examples if people would like.

EDIT: The issue, I eventually learned, is that files need to be passed from a form with "post" rather than "get", as everything else in this package runs. Not a very exciting answer, but using "get" will not pass along any of the data.

In reply to Issue with Passing Files? by Hermano23

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