I have recently ported most of my CGI programs to mod_perl. I _need_ Apache.pm loaded, and those of you familiar with mod_perl unterstand the importance of removing redundant code. Everything was going great, until I needed to reuse some old code to accept user uploads. The only code uses CGI.pm, and I don't want to do that. My question is, how do I get at the uploaded file via an apache request object, and how is this different (internally) than with CGI.pm?

Here is the code that is not working

my %params = $r->method eq 'POST' ? $r->content : $r->args;
while ( my ( $key, $value ) = each %params ) {
    if ( "some reg-exp that is true if there is an upload" ) {
            print STDERR "value=$value\n";
            my $tempfile = $value;
            #some fiddling with the $tempfile
            my $buffer;
            print STDERR "tempfile=$tempfile\n";
            open( *OUTFILE,">>/tmp/myb.$tempfile") || die "couldn't op
+en outfile: $!";
            while ( read( $value, $buffer, 1024 ) ) {
            print OUTFILE $buffer;
            }
            close( *OUTFILE );
    }
}

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and $tempfile gets created, but is empty.

I've tried perdoc Apache, and I've tried the mod_perl Guide.

Any help or references would be greatly appriciated.

In reply to uploads with Apache.pm by Aighearach

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