I'd like to upload files to a <INPUT TYPE=FILE name="file1"> element using WWW:Mechanize.
My files are in memory - I cannot save them to /tmp and then do something like 
$mech->submit_form(form_name => 'something', fields => { file1 => '/tm
+p/myfile' }

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so - is there any way to pass the file as an in-memory object? I can do it with something like this: 
    my $input = $m->current_form()->find_input('file1');
    $input->content(  $content_here );
    $input->filename( $filename );
    $input->headers( content_type => $content_type );

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but how would I determine the content type for any type of file?

In reply to Upload in-memory files with WWW:Mechanize by hotsolutions

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