I'm trying to upload a file using CGI.pm and all the files are resulting in files of size 0. In fact, CGI.pm is not passing a valid file handle when using upload(). I've been fumbling with this for a while now, maybe someone else can see the error.

Form and file input tags: 
<form action="server.edu/submit.pl?querystring" enctype="multipart/for
+m-data" method="post">
<input type="file" name="uploadfile_0" />
<input type="submit" value="upload" />
</form>

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The relevant perl: 
my $query    = CGI::new();
my $filename = $query->param("uploadfile_0");

next if !$filename;

$filename    =~ s/^.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
$filename    =~ s/\s/"_"/ge;

my $upload   = $query->upload("uploadfile_0");

if (!$upload) {
 $output .= "<p>CGI.pm failed to upload the file.</p>";
 next;
}

open(FILE,">$location/$filename") or die "$!";
binmode FILE;
while ( <$upload> ) {
  print FILE;
}
close(FILE);

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It always hits the !$upload catch. If i remove that catch the file is created as an empty 0 byte file. Hopefully its a simple problem that i'm missing out of frustration.

In reply to Uploading Files with CGI.pm results in 0 byte files by Anonymous Monk

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