Hello
I'm writing a small Perl script (http client) that only uploads files to a webserver. I do not want to use FTP. I want to use HTTP and a multipart POST.

I think I can accomplish this by using IO::Socket, creating a multipart MIME format, and stepping through the lines in the file one by one (writing to the socket). However, I do not know the protocol rules for doing this. I can send regular POSTs, but when i send the multipart POST and try to read the server response it just hangs (waiting for response). When I look at the server side nothing is uploaded. Am i missing something? 

# Read file: open(FILE, $file);
# Convert to multipart MIME & save in temp file
# Make socket connection: $socket = IO::Socket....
# Generate HTTP POST HEADER: print $socket "POST /cgi-bin/upload.pl HT
+TP/1.0\n" etc. 
# Read multipart temp file line by line and write to socket: while(<TE
+MP>){ print $socket }
# When finished (EOF): print "\n\r\n\r";
# Read server response: while(<$socket>){ print }

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In reply to uploading a file through HTTP using multipart by Anonymous Monk

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