OK ... according to  perldoc CGI ( i have CGI.pm v2.98 )
To be safe, use the upload() function (new in version 2.47). When called with the name of an upload field, upload() returns a filehandle, or undef if the parameter is not a valid filehandle.

$fh = $query->upload('uploaded_file');
while (<$fh>) {
print;
}

everything looks fine ... but what if you want to do something different with the tmpfile?

I'm trying to pass it into Image::Magick, like so: 

     my $fh = $self->cgi->upload( 'map' );
     my $thumb = Image::Magick->new();
     $thumb->Read( file => \*$fh ) or die "No read to Image::Magick ob
+j:  $! \n";

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it always dies on the read.

if  $fh ( according to the docs ) is a filehandle, and Image::Magick expects a glob ref to a filehandle, what am i missing?

i've tried adding the full path to the image. no love.

In reply to CGI::upload and Image::Magick by geektron

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