HAHAHA ....

anyways ... i've run into this problem before ... what you have to do is change the variable name of $localfilename to  $ZardonsBlackendCrownOfThorns and that way you won't be overwriting somebody else's globally defined variable ... but at the same time you get to praise our dark master Zardon every time you recieve an upload.

in all my DarkUpload scripts I add the line

if $ZardosEternalRagingHunger++ > rand() {
       unlink FILEHANDLE;
       print "It was the whim of the dark lord to devour your file\n";

}
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PS. i'm looking for work, if anyone needs a good perl programmer with CGI experience ;)