Esteemed Monks,

I have the short script below for receiving files over HTTPS and saving them in a directory. It works great for files of a few hundred kB or less in size. However, for files around 50MB or larger, the script times out without saving the files.

I've tried increasing the timeout for the HTTP daemon (OpenBSD's httpd) but that shouldn't be needed, the upload should take only a second or so with these network speeds, as with SFTP. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI::Fast;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

use strict;
use warnings;

my $socket = '/var/www/run/sockets/upload.sock';

# max file upload size MB
$CGI::POST_MAX = 1024 * 1024 * 500;
$ENV{FCGI_SOCKET_PATH} = $socket;
$ENV{FCGI_SOCKET_PERM} = 0775;

while (my $q = CGI::Fast->new) {
    print qq(Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n);

    print qq(<!DOCTYPE html>\n);
    print qq(<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">\n);
    my $head = &head_default;
    print qq(<head>\n$head\n</head>\n);
    my $body;
    if ( $q->param && $q->request_method() eq 'POST') {
    $body = &upload($q);
    } else {
    $body = &body_default;
    }
    print qq(<body>\n$body\n</body>\n);
    print qq(</html>\n);
}

exit(0);

sub head_default {
    my $css = &css;
    my $head = <<"EOH";
        <title>Hello, World</title>
    $css
EOH

    return($head);
}

sub css {
    my $css=<<EOC;
 <style type="text/css" media="screen">
  /*<![CDATA[*/
  BODY { font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0; }
  H1 { font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;
       font-family: serif; 
       background-color: #a080ff; 
       padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; 
       border-right:  thin solid #000000;
       border-left:   thin solid #000000;
    }
  P.update { clear: both; font-size: 60%; text-align: center; 
             margin-left: 0.5em; margin-right: 0.5em; }
  FORM { border: thin solid #000; }
  FORM > LABEL:has(~ DETAILS[open]) { display: none; }

  }
  /*]]>*/
</style>
EOC
    return($css);
}

sub body_default {
    my $body;

    $body .= <<EOB;
        <h1>Upload a File</h1>
        <p></p>
    <form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    Select a file to upload: 
    <input type="file" name="fileToUpload" 
        id="fileToUpload"> <br />
    &nbsp; <br />
    <input type="submit" value="Upload File" name="submit">
    </form>
EOB
    
    return($body);
}

sub upload {
    my ($q) = (@_);

    if (!$q->param('fileToUpload')) {
        return(0);
    }

    my $file = $q->param('fileToUpload');
    $file =~ s/\s+/ /g;
    $file =~ s/[^\w\ \_\.\-]+//g;

    if (! $file) {
        return(0);
    }

    my $upload_dir = "/var/www/uploads";
    my $upload = $q->upload('fileToUpload');
    open ( my $ufile, ">", "$upload_dir/$file" )
        or die "$!"; 

    binmode($ufile);
    while ( my $data = <$upload> ) { 
        print $ufile $data; 
    }
    close ($ufile);

    my $body = <<EOB;
<p>
The file <b>$file</b> was uploaded successfully. <br />
Press the <b>back</b> button or close this tab.
</p>
EOB

    return($body);
}

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Again, it seems to work fine with smaller files. What should I look at tweaking in order to upload larger files? Any other tips welcome, too.

In reply to CGI::Fast timing out with uploads of large files not small ones by mldvx4

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