This looks pretty ancient to be worried about buffers.

Well, CGI.pm is indeed pretty ancient (see also for modern alternatives), but its documentation does show that as an example of how to handle the upload. BTW, your code example appears to be missing strict and warnings, proper open usage, and a binmode (or '>:raw' layer in the open) on the filehandle.

What are preferred and modern ways to do this?

Personally, I prefer Mojolicious. Its tutorial includes an example, and on my scratchpad I have linked quite a few of my Mojo examples.

ssh: Could not resolve hostname gitlab.com: Name or service not known

If your ssh -T git@gitlab.com works on the same machine, then that's really strange and would indicate a problem with your network configuration or some other strange thing is going on. Though this is definitely worth debugging, I just wanted to take this oppertunity to say that I usually recommend the https protocol for all git remotes, as my experience has been it's easier to set up, especially in combination with e.g. git-credential-cache.

How do experienced Gitlabers cook up a project from scratch?

Though I personally take a different route, probably the easiest way is to create a new project on the website, leave the option "Initialize repository with a README" or similar enabled, and then do a git clone to get that repository onto the local machine, and then start working in this new directory, pushing changes up to the server as desired.

In reply to Re: Using perl to script an upload page by haukex
in thread Using perl to script an upload page by Aldebaran

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