Hopefully I don't come off as a total moron, but I am having some trouble... Please keep in mind I started working with Perl about 3 weeks ago :)

I am using a standard FILE input to handle image uploads to a site. I am throwing the value into a string and scrubbing the local path (c:\documents and settings\blah blah blah\image.jpg) to end up with just the file name.

The expression I am using seems to work perfectly when I use firefox, but in IE 7 it still seems to be passing the full local path. Here is the expression and method I am using:

$file = ~m/^.*(\\|\/)(.*)/;
open(LOCAL, ">../../htdocs/images/photos/$file") or die $!;
while(<$file>) {
print LOCAL $_;
}

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I would think that since this is all handled by Perl that the browser wouldn't make a difference, but it definitely seems to be the case. I am thinking maybe the value that IE sends in POST is different than the value that Firefox is sending...but I just can't figure it out.

Any idea why this works in firefox/chrome/safari/opera but not IE?

Thanks a ton, everyone.

In reply to Scrubbing a local path in a file upload by sier

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