This should be a simple one. I am using CGI.pm to upload files to the server and all works for the JPGs. However, for some reason, the equivalent code for PDFs fails. My apache error log gives a "Malformed multipart POST: data truncated" and I have seen this cited elsewhere. Again, the same thing works for the image files in parallel code.

The form is simple:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="xxxxx">
<input type="file" accept="application/pdf" name="file">
<input type="submit" value="Upload">
</form>
[download]

(xxxxx is just hiding the actual script name.)

For jpgs, I have this, and it works:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="yyyyy">
<input type="file" accept="image/jpg" name="file">
<input type="submit" value="Upload">
</form>
[download]

It is processed with:

  my $cgi = new CGI;
  my $file = new $cgi->param('file');
  open(FUP,">$vdir$fn");
  while (<$file>) {
    print FUP $_;
  }
  close FUP;
  print $cgi->header();
[download]

The only real difference for the JPG uploader for that is that there is a size restriction placed on the file with:

$CGI::POST_MAX = 1024 * 1024;
[download]

I do not have that at all for the PDFs. Is "application/pdf" incorrect or do I have to make some other accommodation? This has to be a SMH simple thing, but eludes me.

Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.

One thing that did occur to me is the possibility of a buffer limitation in the post. I have bumped up against that for $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'} before.

UPDATE - SOLVED

I'll keep this here with the solution in case someone else faces the same thing.

sysread(STDIN, $inputdata, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

Don't need to do this, unlike in ordinary form post processing. Leave that out and it works like a charm.

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