nosbod, I have struggled with this myself and believe the limitation is in the HTML enctype="multipart/form-data" capability. My only "solution" is to offer the user a bunch of <input type="file"... fields on the form and then loop through my upload function in my Perl. I've seen several other sites do this as well, often asking for the number of files to upload first and then presenting as many file fields on a refreshed form.

OT: I also find it interesting that I can do nothing with this field on the client side, pre-server validation with javascript for e.g.


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In reply to Re: multiple file upload and CGI by bradcathey
in thread multiple file upload and CGI by nosbod

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