I am trying to upload a file from a web form. I've read How can I get started with a file upload script? and, in the spirit of that answer, here is what I have:

The form is generated by a template (of which this is a snippet) as such: 

<form method="get" action="./source_definition" enctype="multipart/for
+m-data">
  <p><input type="file" name="upload_file"></p>
</form>

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Then the snippet of code that handles the upload looks like this: 

    my $filename = $cgi->param('upload_file');
    binmode($filename);

    my $test = "";
    my $buffer;
    
    while ( read($filename, $buffer, 1024) ) {
        $test .= $buffer;
        
    }

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The goal is to have the whole file in $test. The problem is that at the end of it $test is empty. What have I missed?

Thanks

In reply to Problems with uploading a file from a web form by ezekiel

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