I am trying to use LWP to post a multi-part form to upload a file from my local machine.
I keep getting the following response:

cgi-lib.pl: reached end of input while seeking boundary of multipart. Format of CGI input is wrong.

What am I doing wrong? My code is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Create a user agent object
use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->agent("AgentName/0.1 " . $ua->agent);
$URL="http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/upload.pl";  #uses cgi-lib218.pl
+  
# Create a request
my $req = new HTTP::Request POST => $URL;
$req->content_type('multipart/form-data; boundary=lwp234892.3',['file'
+,'C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\test.txt']);
$req->content('table=mytest&name=lwptest1');
# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);
# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
print $res->content;
} else {
print "Bad luck this time\n";
}

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Edit kudra, 2002-04-23 s/br/code/

In reply to cgi-lib error when using lwp multipart form to upload a file - what am I doing wrong? by slloyd

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