Hello, I've read various posts regarding HTTP posting and I even have a nice working example (below). The problem I am having may be on the cgi side of things but I'm unsure. The server accepts the HTTP post and even sends back a message in the result stating that the file I've uploaded is now available for download and gives the URL. However, the getting the URL returns 404. I am suspicious that maybe I'm uploading the filename path, but not the actual file data hence fooling the cgi engine serverside. For the curious, I'm uploading a file to have it digitally signed, and then presented for download post signing. Does my code have any glaring issues? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# file: uploadafile.pl
# call me like this:
# uploadafile.pl --url=http://www.x.com/cgi-bin/upload.pl --uploadfile
+=c:/temp/who.gif --sig=3rdparty|latest
#
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use Getopt::Long;
use File::Basename;

my ( $o_url, $o_fqn, $o_sver );
GetOptions(
    "url=s"        => \$o_url,
    "uploadfile=s" => \$o_fqn,
    "sig=s" => \$o_sver,
);

# mandatory arguments: url
&usage unless ( $o_url && $o_fqn && $o_sver );

my $url   = $o_url;
my $fname = $o_fqn;
my $sign = $o_sver;
binmode $fname;
open FILE, $fname or die $!;
binmode FILE;
my $buffer;
read(FILE, $buffer, 20, 0);
binmode $buffer;
close(FILE);

foreach (split(//, $buffer)) {
    printf("%02x ", ord($_));
    print "\n" if $_ eq "\n";
}

#my ($buf, $data, $n);
#while (($n = read FILE, $data, 4) != 0) {
#  print "$n bytes read\n";
#  $buf .= $data;
#}

# put timeouts, proxy etc into the useragent if needed
my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = POST $url, ENCTYPE => 'multipart/form-data',
    Content => [
        submit => 'Sign',
        widget_bundle =>  [$fname],
        email_address => 'harish.krishnamurthy@nokia.com', 
        signer_version => $sign,
    ];
my $response = $ua->request($req);
close(FILE);


if ($response->is_success()) {
    print "OK: ", $response->content;
} else {
    print $response->as_string;
}

exit;

sub usage {
    printf "usage: %s --url=%s --uploadfile=%s\\n",
        basename($0),'http://....','c:/data/myfile.jpg','3rdparty|late
+st';
    exit
}

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In reply to Am I HTTP posting a file correctly? by mikelupo

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