#!/usr/bin/perl -CS
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
my $cgi = new CGI;

my $filename = $cgi->param('file');
my $fh = $cgi->upload('file');
binmode $fh;

open(OUTPUT, ">/var/www/mypath/$filename") or die $!;
while(<$fh>) {
        print OUTPUT $_;
}

print $cgi->header();
print "$file has been successfully uploaded... thank you.\n";

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does not work (same error) so switching the filehandle/STDIN (I tried both) just before storing the file does not seem to be possible after giving perl the -CS switch.

update: changing binmode $fh; to binmode $fh, ":utf8"; does the trick! (Is this what you meant and does that mean I am still on the right track or is it a hint of a problem?)

In reply to Re^2: CGI.pm: "Malformed UTF-8 character" in apache's error.log by isync
in thread CGI.pm: "Malformed UTF-8 character" in apache's error.log by isync

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