Thanks for the example, I'll try it straight away.

my $q = CGI->new(\&hook, 'some arbitrary data', 0);

If I read this correctly, the '0' tells CGI not to write data to it's normal file and therefore the bits will only end up going wherever &hooks directs them to?

Regarding the temp file location, I had trouble changing the location in code, but setting the TMPDIR env variable in the OS worked for what I needed.

The behavior I saw was that even on the same drive CGI made a copy of the file and then unlinked the CGITemp one. On a 2GB file the delay was quite noticeable, so I used sysinternals procmon to verify that the data was infact copied, even when on the same disk. It could work differently on linux, no doubt. It really wouldn't be an issue either way if the files were a more reasonable size ;)

In reply to Re^2: CGI upload efficiency by Anonymous Monk
in thread CGI upload efficiency by Talroot

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