Hi, Im trying to script that will accept a file from the post of an multipart/form-data HTML form. This script just gives me a generic "Error 500", is there any thing wrong with my code that I've missed? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
  

 use CGI;
 
 $query = new CGI;

 $filename = $query->param('photo');
 #remove slashes
 $filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
 $upload_filehandle = $query->upload('photo');

 open UPLOADFILE, ">>/path/to/$filename" ;

 binmode UPLOADFILE;

 while ( <$upload_filehandle> )
 {
   print UPLOADFILE;
 }

 close UPLOADFILE;

 print $query->header( );
 print <<EOM;

 <HTML>
 <HEAD>
 <TITLE>Thanks!</TITLE>
 </HEAD>

 <BODY>

 <P>Thanks for uploading your file!</P>

 <P>Your photo:</P>
 <img src="/$uploaddir/$filename" border="0">

 </BODY>
 </HTML>
EOM

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it recives the post from a HTML form similar to this: 
  <FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/test.pl" METHOD="post"  
 ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
 Photo to Upload: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="photo">
  <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Submit" VALUE="Submit Form">
 </FORM>

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In reply to Binary File Upload by codejone

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