I'm in the process of writing a web mail package and need to sort out how to upload and download files. The relevant html of my web page in my form is: 
<input type="file" value="starting value">

[download]
This is passed to a perl script using CGI.pm and I do this: 
$file = $query->param('upload_file_name');

[download]
The perl references I've read said that all I have to do next is to read from $file. However, this only works when I browse from the same machine the script is on, because it sees the path locally as /path/to/my/file. When I try this from Windows, the path is passed as C:\dos\path\to\file. What I need to know is how to actually have the file upload? Any suggestions, or is this something I may have to do in Javascript?

In reply to Uploading via HTML/Using CGI.pm by radagast

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