rethaew has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, having a problem with Win32::IE::Mechanize populating a file type form field. Testing on my work station windows7x64 with IE8. Is this a bug in Win32::IE::Mechanize or more security with IE8? Unfortunately I don't have any other computers with different versions of IE to test. Here is a simplified version of the codes: html form: 
<html><body>
<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="blah" method="post" name="
+upload">
<input type="file" name="file1">
<input type="text" name="file2">
<input type="submit" value="Upload" name="submit">
</FORM>
</body></html>

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And this is the Perl that is getting that page and trying to populate it. The text field populates just fine, but the file field will not: 
use Win32::IE::Mechanize;
my $ie = Win32::IE::Mechanize->new( visible => 1 );
my $url = 'http://blah/test.html';
$ie->get( $url );
$ie->form_name( 'upload' );
$ie->set_fields(
    'file1' => 'D:\test.pl',
    'file2' => 'D:\test.pl',
);

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