The following uses the upload() function in CGI.pm >= 2.47.

HTML: 

<form action="cgi-bin/uploader.pl" method="post" enctype="multipart/fo
+rm-data">

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Perl: 

my $image = upload_file( "file_to_upload.txt", "../incoming" );

sub upload_file
{
    local $| = 1;
    my( $filename, $path ) = @_;

    my $file = $query->upload($filename); # the magic
    open OUTPUT, "> $path/$filename" or die "$path/$filename - $!"; 

    binmode $file;
    binmode OUTPUT;

    my $buffer;
    while ( read( $file, $buffer, 64*2**10 ) )
    {
        print OUTPUT $buffer;
    }

    close OUTPUT;
    close $file;

    return( $filename );
}

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In reply to Re: How to upload a file to a web server? by bradcathey
in thread How to upload a file to a web server? by Anonymous Monk

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