Hi we are getting the following error while trying to upload the file on teamsite server " Software error: Malformed multipart POST For help, please send mail to the webmaster (you@yourdomain.com), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. " code segment from ipl file which is calling ,
"print<<"END"; 
<body> 
<form action="/x/iw-bin/FileUpload.cgi" method="post" enctype="multipa
+rt/form-data" > 
<p>  File to Upload: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="file" > </p> 

<p> <input type="submit" value="SEND FILE" /></p> 
<p>  <input type="reset" value="CLEAR" /></p> 


</form>

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</body> </html> END " this is upload.cgi.(it is written in interwoven perl so it may be difficult to unstd but i am really stuck at this issue so i am posting in case it helps to find a solution) 
"#!D:\PROGRA~1\INTERW~2\TeamSite/iw-perl/bin/iwperl
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------
#  
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------


=head1 NAME
=cut

use TeamSite::CGI_lite;
use CGI; 
use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser ); 
use File::Basename;
$|=1;
$cgi = TeamSite::CGI_lite->new();
$cgi->parse_data();
print<<"END";
Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<html>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
END


my $iwmnt = "y:" ;
$main=$cgi->escape_html_data($cgi->{form}{'vpath'});

print $main;
my $safe_filename_characters = "a-zA-Z0-9_.-";






$import_target_path = $iwmnt . $main;

my $query = new CGI; 
my $filename = $query->param("file"); 
$filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
my ( $name, $path, $extension ) = fileparse ( $filename, '\..*' ); 
$filename = $name . $extension; 
$filename =~ tr/ /_/; 
$filename =~ s/[^$safe_filename_characters]//g; 

if ( $filename =~ /^([$safe_filename_characters]+)$/ ) 
{ 
 $filename = $1; 
} 
else 
{ 
 die "Filename contains invalid characters"; 
} 


my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("file");


open ( UPLOADFILE, ">$import_target_path/$filename" ) or die "$!"; 
binmode UPLOADFILE; 

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

close UPLOADFILE;



print<<"END";
 <body> 
   <p>Thanks for uploading </p> 
   <p>$filename</p> 
 </body> 
</html> 
END
"

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regards, rahul

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