have a https site to upload files, and I want to automate the process. 
Client code:
my $url = "https:\/\/acct:pass\@ftp.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/upload.pl";
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");
my $file="c:\\filetoupload.txt"; 
$res = $ua->post($url,
[ "ac" => 'upload',
"file" => "$file"
]
); 
print $res->content, "\n";

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Server Code to receive file: 
## open of the file on server
open(FILE,">$upload_dir/$file_name") || &Error("Error opening file $fi
+le_name for writing, error $!", 1);
binmode FILE;

$time=time();
while (1)
{
### fails here return code is undef.
$bytes_count = read($file_query,$buff,2096);
if ($bytes_count == 0)
{
last;
}

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Manual client uses the input type=File which allows the user to browse and pick the file. Question is what is the trick to pass the file to the server. The server fails on the read. $file_query is the name of the file, would think that it would be a handle. Thanks in advance.

In reply to Using LWP to automate file upload by cdlvj

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