in reply to file upload question

It doesn't "upload to a specified directory". It uploads to a temporary directory, and CGI then passes you a file handle. You can use that filehandle to copy the file to the "specified directory".

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Re: Re: file upload question
by grahm (Novice) on May 05, 2004 at 17:05 UTC
    Thanks for your reply matija! Here's more background on the situation.. I have a little uploader script that I wrote to upload files to my server. It works fine until I try larger files and I'm assuming the script is timing out after 5 or so minutes. My host told me that the reason it's "crashing" on larger uploads is because I'm uploading to a "temp" directory and the servers see this as a dead link after a period of time. They said that if I were uploading to another designated directory, then this wouldn't happen. Any thoughts?
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      Check out the docs for CGI (perldoc CGI), search specifically for the string upload. This should give you some information as to how the CGI module works for file uploads.

      --MidLifeXis

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        Thanks again.. cpan.org offered the following, Ordinarily it spools the uploaded file to a temporary directory, then deletes the file when done. and The temporary directory is selected using the following algorithm. I probably don't want to be messing with Perl and its temp directory or spool. :)
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