Hi all

I have a web application written that allows the web user, using any browser, to upload an image or other file to the web server using a <form action="/cgi/sript.pl" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"> and the <input name="file" value="" type="file"> HTML element. The web being what it has become, I want to allow the user to select an image from their local file system and once they have chosen it, get the HTML page using jquery,javascript/AJAX, to automatically upload it to the server and present the user with a thumbnail preview of the image they just uploaded.

Could anybody point me to an example of doing this? I'm pretty proficient with Perl, HTML and cgi programming but I am not sure what is the easiest or perhaps standardized way of doing this nowadays.

For example, I have seen examples of jquery submitting data to a url on the web server, but I am not sure what is the nature of this data, whether it is multipart/form-data or what... Also, I am not sure what javascript/jquery expect as a response/output from the script running on the web server.

Any pointers?

Cheers,
Kostas

In reply to AJAX image upload by monx663

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