Most people don't seem to think of using -s on the filehandle provided by CGI::Simple (or CGI). The following script works just fine (ugly example, but it works). You will notice one problem with this however: it works for the reading, but the entire file has to be uploaded before processing can begin. As far as I know, this problem exists in every single upload and cannot be avoided. The code in the script won't even start executing until the client has passed the entire file upload contents. 

#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w
$| = 1;

use strict;
use CGI::Simple qw(-upload);

my $q = CGI::Simple->new();

if ( defined($q->param('fh_upload')) ) {
    my $fh = $q->upload( $q->param('fh_upload') );
    my $size = -s($fh);

    print $q->header(), <<'END_HTML';
<html>

    <head>
        <title>Upload Example</title>
    </head>

    <body>
END_HTML

    my ($uploaded, $buffer);
    while ( my $bytes = read($fh, $buffer, 1024) ) {
        $uploaded += $bytes;
        print int($uploaded / $size * 100), "%<br />\n";
        select( undef, undef, undef, 0.02);
    }

    print "</body></html>";
}

else {
    print $q->header();
    print <<"END_HTML";
<html>

    <head>
        <title>Upload Example</title>
    </head>

    <body>

        <form action="${\($ENV{'REQUEST_URI'})}" method="post" enctype
+="multipart/form-data">
            File to Upload: <input type="file" name="fh_upload" size="
+30" /> 
            <input type="submit" value="upload file" />
        </form>

    </body>

</html>
END_HTML

}

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In reply to Re: Upload Progress by Anonymous Monk
in thread Upload Progress by Ganlron

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