Most revered monks,

Lately I have been plunging myself into Perl's CGI, programming. And stumbled myself on some aspects of it which I can't seem to figure out the problem. Thus to you I turn for enlightenment....

I was trying to do a file upload through UploadFile() method in CGI.pm. It is done in this way. 
  # Problematic Upload Entry
   strong('Choose File to upload: '),
       filefield(-name=>'upload',-size=>60),br,

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However when I tried to capture the result. Although it can identify the file name, but it cannot identify it's value. 
    
    my $file = param('upload');
    
    # This line print successfully
    print h2('File name'),      $file;


    # But not the subsequent lines
    # Line 55 begins here
    print h2('File MIME type'), uploadInfo($file)->{'Content-Type'};

   while (<$file>) {
        print;
        $length += length($_);
    }
    print h2('File length'), $length;

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The error message given by the problematic line 55 is: 
Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /home/ewijaya/publ
+ic_html/MyTest/cgi-bin/price_debug.cgi line 55.

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Furthere more if you comment out the uploadInfo($file)->{'Content-Type'} line. The content inside while loop doesn't get printed.

To my understanding, I have constructed the uploadInfo() method as according to the doc. But is there anything else that I missed here? The complete code listing can be found here: 


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw/:standard :html3/;
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );

print header, start_html('Order Ice Cream with Price'),
         h1('Order Ice Cream with Price');


generate_form();
print_results();

sub generate_form {
    print hr, start_form,
        strong('Your email: '),
            textfield( -name => 'user_email' ), br, br

        strong('Cone: '),
            radio_group(
                -name     => 'cone',
                -multiple => 1,
                -values   => [qw/sugar waffle/]              
                ),
                br, br

                
        strong('Number of Units: '),
            textfield( -name => 'no_unit' ), br, br                   

        # Problematic Upload Entry
       strong('Choose File to upload: '),
            filefield(-name=>'upload',-size=>60),br,                  
+                                    
        submit( -value => 'Submit' ), 
        end_form, hr;
}


sub print_results {
    print  "You ordered  ",       
        param('no_unit'), ' unit of  ', param('cone'), ' cone.';
    print br;

    my $ct     = param('cone');
    my $nu     = param('no_unit');
    my $uemail =  param('user_email');

    my $length;

   
    my $file = param('upload');
      
     # This line print successfully
     print h2('File name'),      $file;

    # But not the subsequent lines
  
    print h2('File MIME type'), uploadInfo($file)->{'Content-Type'};
    while (<$file>) {
        print;
        $length += length($_);
    }
    print h2('File length'), $length;

    print br;

}

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And it can be tested through this link.

Regards,
Edward

In reply to Problematic UploadFile() method in CGI.pm by monkfan

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