Hi there
I am trying to write a interactive webpage. This involves the user uploading a text file to the server and then a perl script running in the background to perform a task and give a response.
Anyway, I'm having problems with the scripts required to uploadthe necessary file.
This is the html form 
<HTML>
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY> 
<FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/upload.cgi" METHOD="post" ENCTYPE="multipart/fo
+rm-data">

<h1>Welcome to the Online Server</H1>
<br>
Please submit your PDB co-ordinate file here.
<br>
File to upload: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="protein">
<br><br>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Submit" VALUE="Submit File">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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and this is the corresponding form 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI;

$upload_dir = "http://myname.tripod.com/mine";

$query = new CGI;

$filename = $query->param("protein");

$filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;

$upload_filehandle = $query->upload("protein");

open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename";

binmode UPLOADFILE;

close UPLOADFILE;

print $query->header ( );
print <<END_HTML;

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Thanks!</TITLE>
</HEAD> 

<BODY>

<P>Thanks for uploading your file!</P>

</BODY>
</HTML>

END_HTML

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When I try to run the cgi script via the html form I get the following error 
 Your script produced this error: <br>Undefined subroutine CGI::upload
+ at CGI.pm line 349.

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Which I don't understand at all because it all seems ok to me.
I was wondering whether the error could be partially due to me using tripod as my server (don't ask ... I've asked for a server for ages at work and have yet to recieve it .. the department one runs php scripts only). apparently tripod is a bit 'odd'.
Anyway .. any help or suggestions much appreciated.

In reply to CGI script problem .. trying to upload files by Angharad

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