in reply to Re^2: fileno, taint and CGI.pm
in thread fileno, taint and CGI.pm

I knew you were going to ask :) 
       $filename = param('uploaded_file');
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temporary file that CGI.pm creates during upload spooling (see below).

The filename returned is also a file handle. You can read the contents of the file using standard Perl file reading...

CGI::Simple avoids such overloading

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