Yet Another Upload Question: I've been surfing this site and google hoping to find a simple solution for uploading files (of any size or type) to a web server. I wrote some code that creates the appropriate file on the remote server, but when I FTP to my server to check on the file it is 0kb in size. What am I doing wrong? Also, what type of checking should I use to assure the file is uploaded correctly? Thanks. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;


my $dir = '../billimages/';

&performUpload($dir);

sub performUpload {
    my ($dir) = @_;
    my $cgi = new CGI;
    my $file = $cgi->param("file");    
    my $i;
            
    open (LOCAL, ">$dir$file") or dieNicely("Unable to upload: $!");
    while (read($file, $i, 1024)) {
        print OUT $i;
    }
    close (LOCAL);

    dieNicely("Upload Complete");     
}

sub dieNicely {
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    print "$_[0]";
}

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edited by boo_radley - title change (was : YAUQ)

In reply to problems uploading to an HTTP site by emilford

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