May your Wisdoms considerate themselves as deeply greeted.

I am a desperate newbie in the (most fascinating) world of Perl, so I need rather extensive help on this point.

I spend the last few weeks developping a project that parses a file in a set of SQL databases, using VisualBasic. The result is an .exe programm that I can run in a command-line style with several parameters. Now, the next step is to create a Web-interface, using Perl, that allow users to run this programm from everywhere. The server I will use runs on NT with Perl 5.6.1 for Windows.

And here comes my problem: I need to prompt the users for the input file of my programm (using an HTML form). Logically enough, I can't read this file from its current location (and the <input type="file" name="inputfile"> HTML tag provides a local filepath that is of little use), so I need to upload the file first.

The problem is, I have no hint on how to do that. I have come across the LWP module that should solve my case, but I can't see how to use it to upload the client-side file on my server, so that my programm can use it... Can you please describe shortly the several steps necessary for this?

Thank you.

In reply to Uploading files (total newbie needs help...) by guth

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