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

I created a simple web based file management facility for our corp. and included a file upload option. Everything works great, but several users have been asking how to upload several files at once (like a standard FTP client). Is there a way to do this in perl???

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Re: Uploading Multiple files
by LD2 (Curate) on Jun 21, 2001 at 02:06 UTC
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Re: Uploading Multiple files
by Bradpsu (Initiate) on Jul 13, 2001 at 02:18 UTC
    Update: After lots of searching, I found that there is only a couple ways to do this: 1. Place several upload input boxes on the same page (which means you still have to browse for each file seperately) 2. Zip up the files, upload the zip file, and decompress the zip file on the server 3. Switch to a Microsoft server and write some type of an applet (I saw this on msn.com, it works just like windows explorer)
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Re: Uploading Multiple files
by Eradicatore (Monk) on Jun 21, 2001 at 18:00 UTC
    So brad, did you ever get an answer to your problem? Other than tilly having a cow over what I do in this tiny insignificant node? I hope so. If not, let me know and I can help you out. With all the layoffs recently, I wouldn't want anything to happen to you because you couldn't get help from PerlMonks! ;)

    And tilly, please get off your pedastal, in your ivory tower, and answer the question rather than being a playground bully and adding even more useless nodes to this thread that don't help our man brad out here. A simple Chatterbox msg of "please don't yell homework" would have sufficed. Instead we get a diatribe here where nobody will ever see it other than you, your mom, and people looking for an answer to uploading multiple files! Shesh.

    Justin

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      When I see posts like this, one of 3 things happens.
      1. I look at the problem and think it looks like obvious homework, in which case I silently agree.
      2. I look at the problme and think that it doesn't look like obvious homework, in which case I disagree and often post.
      3. I look at the problem and think it is unclear whether it is possibly not homework. What I do then is somewhat random.
      I look at this and definitely think it is not homework.

      My criteria for something looking like obvious homework is that it looks like homework if it is a well-specified problem, that looks somewhat artificial (eg a dead giveaway is that it says you must approach it with tactic X), which clearly will have a straightforward "set-piece" solution. The above problem looks pretty well specified, is a problem I could easily see coming up in real life, and does not have a clear set-piece solution. (FWIW CPAN's real life solution to almost this exact problem is to have the user send a compressed tar which is exploded on the server.) Therefore I don't think it looks much like homework.

      I am honestly curious. By what criteria would you think that this looked like homework? There seem to be a lot of people who want to jump on a bandwagon and yell Homework! with no real reason. :-(

      UPDATE
      And if you are going to admit your mistake, please, please, please just add an UPDATE but leave your original message. "Changing history out from under people" is something that I happen to strongly dislike having done without good reason.

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      Nope, this is not homework. This is for my job.
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