If I were you I would check the error logs. I would also suggest adding more informative dies, and paying attention to security. For instance look at perlsec, turn on taint checking, and stop trusting that user-supplied filenames will be clean.

Here is a simple working example I did a while ago which just echoes the file back to the browser. For more information on some of the security issues that need to be addressed, you may wish to visit the WWW Security FAQ including this section on CGI scripts. Or you can just wander by some samples of how people actually crack scripts. (Hint, it is your vulnerability to some of these cracks that made me sit down and write this. I leave it to you to figure out which ones...)

For a random past discussion on this (which explains both why you cannot safely ignore these attacks and gives some pointers on how to protect yourself) take a look at Warning our Fellow Monks.

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: Help with a File Upload by tilly
in thread Help with a File Upload by elusion

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