I'm trying to read a file that is sent via the filefield field (redundant :-p)and I cannot get anything. I'm using CGI.pm hoping against hope that the upload() func would work, but it doesn't seem to give me anything. The file is coming from a WinDoze box and the cgi in on a linux box. Here's the code I'm using to test with. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
$DEBUG = 0;
########
use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
########

$type = 'something/else';
print $query->header();

$ERROR = $query->cgi_error;
$fh = $query->upload('$filename');
$filename = escapeHTML($query->param('attfile'));
$type = $query->uploadInfo($filename)->{'Content-Type'};
unless ($type eq 'text/html') {
          die "HTML FILES ONLY!";
       }

if (!$fh) {
        print_html($ERROR);
        exit 0;
} else {
        print_html("The file was of type ", $type);
}

        if($DEBUG == 1) {
                @Everything = <$fh>;
                print_html(@Everything);
        }


sub print_html {

        @String_To_Use = @_;
        $SizeOfArray = $#_;
        $Count = 0;

        print $query->start_html();
        print "<CENTER>\n";
        while($Count <= $SizeOfArray) {
                print "$String_To_Use[$Count]\n";
                print "<BR>\n";
                $Count++;
        }
        print "</CENTER>\n";
        print $query->end_html();

}

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The output I get is: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252
+"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

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The file that I'm inputting, ie the filefield is C:\filename.txt

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanx

Ryan Howerton

Edit 2001-03-13 by tye to remove <PRE>.

In reply to Reading a File Uploaded to a cgi script by rhowerton

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