Hi

1) you should do something like

my $query=new CGI();
my $filename=$query->upload("uploaded_file");

if( defined($filename) ) {
 # save the uploaded file
 open(OUTPUT, ">1.jpg"); # just an example, you should check the type
 binmode($filename);
 binmode(OUTPUT);

 while( read($filename, $buffer, 64*2**10) ) { # filename is a file ha
+ndle here
  print OUTPUT $buffer;
 }

 close(OUTPUT);

 print $query->header();
 print $filename; # it's a string here; original filename returned (th
+e name on client's harddrive, fullpath/filename

} else {
 # print the form
 print $query->header();
 ...
 print $query->end_html();
}
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This code was written by memory, not tested. I wrote a similar script just a few days ago. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. 2) CGI.pm returns a string with an original full path/filename on client's computer when $filename is used as a string. If it's used as a file handle, a file handle is returned 3) you can get the MIME type of the uploaded file from CGI.pm. but if you want to be sure 100%, let's say, .gif is a gif actually, .jpg is a JPEG, you should check the file's content using 'file' utility thru a system call or an image-processing library like PerlMagick (ImageMagick). But it goes far away from the original question