I am running perl 5.8.5 and CGI 3.05 and mod_perl 1.99 on an apache2 server. I seem to have to have my forms include the ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" tag to work. Below is the test code. 
<html>
<head><title>Pay Memo</title>
</head>
<body>
        <form name="testform" method="post" action="step2.asp">
                <input type="hidden" name="id" value="1234"><br>
                <input type="text" name="thedata"><br>
                <input type="submit" name="submit_button" value="Test 
+It">
        </form>
</body>
</html>

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Does not work, but if I put in the ENCTYPE 
<html>
<head><title>Pay Memo</title>
</head>
<body>
        <form name="testform" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-da
+ta" action="step2.asp">
                <input type="hidden" name="id" value="1234"><br>
                <input type="text" name="thedata"><br>
                <input type="submit" name="submit_button" value="Test 
+It">
        </form>
</body>
</html>

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it does work. The reading program is this: 
<%
use strict;
use CGI;

my $q = new CGI;


my $data = $q->param('thedata');

%><html>
<head><title>Test Script</title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=is
+o-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
        Got:<%=$data%>
</body>
</html>

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The first example code works fine under mod_perl 1. Any help as to why the ENCTYPE is required now, under mod_perl2, but not under mod_perl 1 would be appreciated. Thanks

In reply to enctype required?? by davidg

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