Hi All, I am in the process of the coding the following to upload a file using the file input in HTML. A file is created in the appropriate directory and with the correct name but it is empty. I have checked the form includes the encypt=multipart/form-data flag so I'm stumped as to why this is still happening. Ok here is the HTML: 

<form name="form2" method="post" action="/cgi-bin/selecttestenv.pl" en
+ctype="multipart/form-data">
Please specify the test pack    
<p>DAP:<br /> 
    <input type "text" name="dap" value= "" size="31" >
    </font></p>
<p>Tick File:<br />      
            <input type="file" name="tick" size="chars"></p>
<p><i>Tick File DTD:</i></br>
        <input type="file" name="tickdtd" size="chars"></p>
<p><i>Fx Rates:</i></br>
        <input type="file" name="fxrates" size="chars"></p>
<p><i>Fx Rates DTD:</i></br>
        <input type="file" name="fxdtd" size="chars"></p>
<p>Excel File:<br />        
            <input type="file" name="excel" size="chars"></p>

    </font></p>

<p>
      <input type="submit" name="form2" value="Next"></p>
</form>

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And here is the perl script - cgi-bin/selecttestenv.pl: 

$CGI::POST_MAX = 1024 * 5000;  
my $safe_filename_characters = "a-zA-Z0-9_.-";  
my $upload_dir = $dir;  
print $upload_dir; 
my $query = new CGI;  
my $filename = $query->param('tick');  
print "my $filename = $query->param($tick);  ";

if ( !$filename )  
{  
 print $query->header ( ); 
 #print "\r\n";
 print "There was a problem uploading your testpack (try a smaller fil
+e).";  
 exit;  
}  
 
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 = $query->upload('$filename');  

#print "U:" . "$upload_dir" . "\r\n";
#print "F:" . "$filename" . "\r\n";
#print "UF:" . ">$upload_dir/$filename" . "\r\n";

print "open ( UPLOADFILE, '>$upload_dir/ticks.xml' )"; 
 
open ( UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/ticks.xml" ) or die "$!";  
binmode UPLOADFILE;  
 
while ( <$upload_filehandle> )  
{  
 print UPLOADFILE;  
}  
 
close UPLOADFILE;  
 
print $query->header ( );

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In reply to Trying to write an appropriate file upload script by rishford

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