Hi!
I've got a nifty little file upload script that works just fine in IE. It's a wonderful thing. But I just tried it in Netscape and while it IS saving the file to the directory specified, it's also bringing up a "save as..." box so the user can save the upload.cgi to their harddrive. It's doing that instead of loading the HTML code as specified by the &subs which basically load a page saying that the file was uploaded. I've not run into this before and since most of the users I'm going to be dealing with HAVE to use Netscape, it's a problem I need a solution to.
Here's the code I'm using on the .asp page for the form:

<form method=post action=upload.cgi name=upload_epic enctype="multipar
+t/form-data">
<input type=file size=20 name=upload>
<br><input type=submit value=submit>
</form>
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And here's the code for the script (not entirely my own and minus the subs containing HTML code):

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use File::Basename;


&print_return_page_top;

print_results();

sub print_results {
    my $q = new CGI;

    my $length;
    my $file = $q->param('upload');
    my $time = time;
    
    if (!$file) {
    print "No file uploaded.";
    return;
    }

    ($base,$path,$type) = fileparse($file,'\..*');

    my $uploaded_path = "\\path\\to\\uploaded_files\\";
    $uploaded_path .= $base;
    $uploaded_path .= "_";
    
    open FILE, ">$uploaded_path$time$type";
    binmode FILE;

while ($bytesread=read($file,$buffer,1024)) {
    print FILE $buffer;
}
    print h2('Success!'),"$file has been uploaded.";

}

&print_return_page_bottom;
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If anyone could give me some insight as to why Netscape is puking this back up, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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