I'm trying to write a cgi script to allow file uploads. I can't seem to get upload() to define my filhandle scalar. I am able to write $filename to the upload directory but it conatains 0K size.

The documentation says that upload uses /tmp, /usr/tmp and then where the script is to write the temporary file that the filehandle links to.

I just don't see what I'm missing, this looks and seems pretty straight forward.

Thanks for any and all help
Joe

Code Snipet: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
        my $formdata = CGI->new;
        my $file = $formdata->param('file');
        my $filename = $formdata->param('filename');
        my $fh = $formdata->upload($file);

        print STDERR "$file\n";
        print STDERR "$filename\n";
        if (defined $fh){<br>
        print STDERR "\$fh is defined\n";
        }

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Apache Error Log: 

test.jpg
new_test.jpg
[Sat Nov  1 17:49:29 2003] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
+ script headers: /var/www/cgi-bin/eface/clients.pl

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