Thanks guys, the error is that the directory of filename does not exist - this is in reponse to the die statement.
Im guessing now that die isnt dandled by browsers and thats why I got the 500 error, Anyway....
This is my code - 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI;

my $query = new CGI;

my $dir = $query->param('dir');
my $file = $query->param('file');

$file =~m/^.*(\\|\/)(.*)/;
my $name = $2;
open(LOCAL,">$dir/$name");# or die "Die: $!";

while(<$file>)
{
  print LOCAL $_;
}

print $query->header();
print $query->start_html("File Upload");

# DEBUG TO SCREEN

print "File and Dir: "$file;
print "File: ",$name;

print $query->end_html;

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THe program prints - 
File and Dir: C:\Documents and Settings\Barry Griffin\Desktop\verbs.tx
+t
File: verbs.txt

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The directory and file are located on my local machine, so i've no idea why I might be getting this error - im working on XP. ANy ideas?

In reply to Re: Re: using die by Baz
in thread using die in CGI context / 500 errors by Baz

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