Hello Monks,

I am working on a script that allows users to download files from a website to their computer. Unfortunately, the original file name has been stored using the name sent by the uploading browser and OS.

This means file names could be any of the following.

Examples:
Z:\my_files\docs\some_kind_of_manual.pdf
myfile.docx
/home/someguy/file.txt

My hope is to get the actual file name regardless of which operating system/browser uploaded the file. If I understand correctly, File::Basename assumes the filename is using the same operating system as the server which isn't necessarily true in this situation.

My question is: will fileparse() work properly anyway with any of these types of filenames if all I need is the $name of the file? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use File::Basename;
use File::MMagic;

#skip some code here...

my ($name,$path,$suffix) = fileparse($filename);

my $mm = File::MMagic->new('/usr/share/file/magic');
my $mimetype = $mm->checktype_byfilename($name);

print "Content-type: $mimetype\n";
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$name\"\n\n";

#other code goes here to output file...

[download]
Thanks for your help.

(Running Perl 5.8.8 on Debian Etch)

In reply to File::Basename and File::MMagic for File Downloads from Website by agent00013

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