What is the type of the form field you're naming file? Is it FILE (<input type="file" name="file">)? If so the problem is that in an HTML form file upload you can not count on getting a complete filename. Some browsers send only the filename, others include the path. Relying on the soure-path of the uploaded file in your CGI is a bad idea. HTML form file uploads are designed for uploading the contents of the file and not its name/location.

To quote from the CGI module's docs:

Different browsers will return slightly different things for the name. Some browsers return the filename only. Others return the full path to the file, using the path conventions of the user's machine.

You may want to see the earlier perlmonks discussion entitled grabbing text which covers the same topic.

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