Actually this is wrong. What CGI.pm does is this: 

      if (($POST_MAX > 0) && ($content_length > $POST_MAX)) {
      $self->cgi_error("413 Request entity too large");
      last METHOD;


sub cgi_error {
    my ( $self, $err ) = @_;
    if ( $err ) {
         $self->{'.cgi_error'} = $err;
         $self->{'.globals'}->{'FATAL'} == 1 ? croak $err :
            $self->{'.globals'}->{'FATAL'} == 0 ?  carp $err : return 
+$err;
    }
  return $self->{'.cgi_error'};
}

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What this achieves is to set the cgi_error() method which behaves depending on $CGI::FATAL. A 413 header is not generated. All that generally happens is that CGI.pm exits its multipart parsing loop (METHOD:) and proceeds happily along (unless it croaked in cgi_error). As it has not got any data it end up doing zip. With no params the general behaviour written into most CGIs is to display the default/login page....

All that is required is to check for this error and do whatever.... 

my $q = new CGI;

do_file_too_big() if $q->cgi_error =~ m/413/;

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cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: CGI.PM File Upload by tachyon
in thread CGI.PM File Upload by Anonymous Monk

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