I tried your test script and it works perfectly on my server, but after changing my code a bit to reflect yours it still wasn't working. So... the problem wasn't with CGI, but rather with something I did somewhere else in my script.

After some investigation I discovered that apparantly at some point in my development (remember, this is old code) I switched from the OO-style CGI interface to the functional interface, with about 99% using param(blah) and the rest using $object->param(blah). CGI.pm apparantly doesn't have a problem when you mix interfaces for most functions (my HTML-generation and parameter fetching all worked fine) but it apparantly hoses the magic upload functions. Imagine that. :-D Once I took out $object = new CGI; everything miraculously started working.

Remember what I said at the beginning? Well, I'm an idiot. Although I didn't intend to, the lesson here is obvious: don't mix your interfaces in CGI.pm.

Thanks to all who took the time to post... I sure do appreciate it!

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: Re: CGI.pm file upload freaking me out by Trimbach
in thread CGI.pm file upload freaking me out by Trimbach

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