I am running an Apache server on a networked machine and want to allow people browsing the intranet on that machine to copy files from their machines to a specified dir on the server machine.

I am using "multipart/form-data" encoding to get the filename and pass this to the routine. The only problem is that this returns a local path to the file on the user's machine and when they're looking at the intranet (which runs on HTTP://GIOTTO) in their browsers, this is not the path to the file relative to the CGI routine that is running the FILE::COPY. I have tried frigging it but no luck.

Also, FILE::COPY itself seems to return very little info. At the moment I am using the following code (where "recourse" is the dir I want the files to be uploaded to):

$filename = $formdata{file};
@parts = split (/\\/,$filename);
$sourcefilename = @parts[$#parts];
$targetdir = "\\\\\Giotto\\recourse";
$targetfilename = "$targetdir\\$sourcefilename";

print "The target directory for this file is: $targetdir";
print "This makes the target path: $targetfilename";


use File::Copy;
if (copy $filename, $targetfilename)
{
    print "Copy complete...";
}
else
{
    print "Error";
}

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Does anyone have any pearls of wisdom on this one?
Cheers

2002-05-03 Edit by Corion : Added formatting

In reply to File::Copy across a Network by Kibashira

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