Re: Getting a filehandle for uploaded file

The code snippet in CGI (in PROCESSING_A_FILE_UPLOAD_FIELD) tells us:

  $lightweight_fh  = $q->upload('field_name');

  # undef may be returned if it's not a valid file handle
  .
  .
  .
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Hence the problem you're seeing is not entirely unexpected - by Lincoln Stein i.e. the module author, anyway;-)

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

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Re^2: Getting a filehandle for uploaded file by luker (Initiate) on Oct 20, 2009 at 13:51 UTC
I noticed that too. So what's the alternative?	[reply]
Re^3: Getting a filehandle for uploaded file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2009 at 14:48 UTC
One would think the user didn't upload a file or an error occured (too big?). You can use `defined($file_from_upload) && defined(fileno($file_from_upload))` [download] to determine if the param was supplied and that it was supplied as a file upload.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Getting a filehandle for uploaded file by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Oct 20, 2009 at 14:47 UTC
Hmmm, maybe this will be of use ... to us both ;-) A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re^4: Getting a filehandle for uploaded file by luker (Initiate) on Oct 20, 2009 at 15:04 UTC
Again, there the advice is to use: `my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("photo");` [download] and then read from the $upload_filehandle. In my case, the $upload_filehandle is coming back undef.	[reply] [d/l]