I've read over a few posts concerning uploading files and I am looking at pp152-5 in Lincoln Stein's book on using cgi.pm. Right now, I am just toying around with uploading a file from the local hard drive to the server. All I am doing in my current script is is uploading the file and then trying to print its contents to the web browser window. However, instead of the file's contents, I am just getting the file's name.

## cgi.pm parameters
use CGI;
#use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser carpout);
$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 0;
$CGI::POST_MAX = 24000;
my $query = new CGI;
$query = CGI->new();

my %formdata;
my @formfields = $query->param;

for my $field(@formfields) {
  $formdata{$field} = $query->param($field);
}

print <<FORM;
<center>
<form method="post" action="https://www.$domain/$self" enctype="multip
+art/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="mod" value="on">
<input type="file" name="upload"  size="40"><p>
<input type="image" src="$images/submitbutton.gif">
</form>
</center>
FORM

## end upload documents ##

while(<$formdata{upload}>) {
  print;
}

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This is just a snippet of my code. It seems to upload the file, however when a user selects C:\somefile.txt, the while statement just prints out this same path, minus the backslash. Based on Mr. Stein's code on p153 of his book with an example of how to print a file out to a local file on the server, I had thought the above snippet would work.

Can someone please point me straight?

humbly -c

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