I hav'nt been playing around with cgi much lately, but I recall having trouble getting the post_max stuff to work right. I seem to remember that often the cgi script would sometimes actually upload the entire file, no matter the size, before reporting the file exceeded the max size.

So I just resort to using the CONTENT_LENGTH 

my $maxsize = 1024 * 100; #max 100K 
my $upload_dir='uploads';
my $q = new CGI;
print $q->header();

if($ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH} > $maxsize){
 print "file too large - must be less than $maxsize bytes";
 exit;
 }

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In reply to Re: file upload, max_post, and cgi-error by zentara
in thread file upload, max_post, and cgi-error by nponte

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