Greetings Wise Ones

I am trying to write an image gallery but it's not quite working for me. I'm following the CGI.pm manpage. At the moment, when I run the script through the webpage I get a weird error.

First the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI qw /normal/;
use File::Basename;

my $query = CGI->new();
my $bytesread;
my $buffer;
my $filename;

print $query->header;
print $query->start_html;
print $query->start_form;

print $query->br;
print "Enter picture description";
print $query->br;
print $query->textfield(-name=>'name',
                        -default=>'description',
                        -size=>50,
                        -maxlength=>250);
print $query->br;
print "Enter filename to upload";
print $query->br;
print $query->filefield(-name=>'uploaded_file',
                        -default=>'starting value',
                        -size=>50,
                        -maxlength=>80);
print $query->submit;

$filename = $query->upload('uploaded_file');

while (<$filename>) {
        print "$_<br>";
}

open (OUTFILE,">/tmp/feedback");
while ($bytesread=read($filename,$buffer,1024)) {
        print OUTFILE $buffer;
}

print $query->end_html;
[download]

And now the error:

[Fri Aug 13 23:08:33 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] Use of uniniti
+alized value in <HANDLE> at /var/www/cgi-bin/gallery/upload.cgi line 
+37., referer: http://www.retard.com/cgi-bin/gallery/upload.cgi
[Fri Aug 13 23:08:33 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] readline() on 
+unopened filehandle at /var/www/cgi-bin/gallery/upload.cgi line 37., 
+referer: http://www.retard.com/cgi-bin/gallery/upload.cgi
[Fri Aug 13 23:08:33 2004] [error] [client 192.168.1.3] Can't use an u
+ndefined value as a symbol reference at /var/www/cgi-bin/gallery/uplo
+ad.cgi line 42., referer: http://www.retard.com/cgi-bin/gallery/uploa
+d.cgi
[download]

I'm confused as the manpage says that $filename = $query->upload('uploaded_file');, $filename is also a file handle.

Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction?

Thanks

ReTard (not the quickest function in the library)

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