Hello, I was wondering if somebody would be able to help me debug this file upload script: What I'd like the script to do: Allow users to upload pictures to my (their)websites. Restrict to jpg,jpeg,gif only.Preserve their filename. At the moment it uploads the file and uses counter number as unique name and jpg as default extension, even so it might be a gif file!. I am not a programmer, and fiddled with this script for the last 3 days. Any help really appreciated! 
 #!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;



print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

$cgi = new CGI;
$dir = "/usr/home/mywebsite/public_html/welcome/graphicsincoming";
$file = $cgi->param('file');

if ($file =~ /.jpeg/gi){
    &start;
}
elsif ($file =~ /.gif/gi){
    &start;
}
elsif ($file =~ /.jpg/gi){
    &start;
}
else{
    dienice("Sorry, but you have either not selected a file to upload 
+or you are trying to upload an invalid picture file.  Only the follow
+ing file extensions are supported: /.jpeg/.gif/.jpg.  Please press th
+e 'back' button below to return to the Upload form.");
}

sub start{
open(COUNT,"</usr/home/mywebsite/public_html/cgi-bin/counter/count.dat
+");
@numbers = <COUNT>;
chomp(@numbers);
close(COUNT);

$filename = @numbers[-1];
$filename++;


$file_name = "$filename";

$file=~m/^.*(\\|\/)(.*)/; # strip the remote path and keep the filenam
+e
open(LOCAL, ">$dir/$file_name") or die $!;
while(<$file>) {
print LOCAL $_;
}

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