Hi all, This is probably a stupid question, but I will ask any way..... I have a form to upload a file to a specific dir on the server. When I use POST for the method, instead of the file name, I get the contents of the file as the file name. If I use GET, I get the file name. Why? I don't really want to use GET since it shows the info in the URL. (security thing) By way of example, the file I am using as a test is called test1.txt. The file contains only one line "This is the test file" With my code, the file name becomes "This is the test file" This is driving me nuts..... Can anyone shed some light on this please? Thanks! Jim The code I am using for the form: 
print "<FORM METHOD=\"post\" ENCTYPE=\"multipart/form-data\">\n";
print "<INPUT TYPE=\"FILE\" SIZE=\"25\" NAME=\"UPLOAD\">\n";
print "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"login\" value=\"$login\">\n";
print "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"password\" value=\"$password\">\n
+";
print "<input type=\"submit\" value=\" Send File \">\n";
print "</FORM>\n";

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The code I am using for the script: 
$dir = '/Full/path/to/ul/dir';
$filename = $input{'UPLOAD'};
$filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
$fileUp = $dir.$filename;

my $upload_filehandle = "$filename";
open UPLOADFILE, ">$dir/$filename";
binmode UPLOADFILE;
while ( <$upload_filehandle> )
{
  print UPLOADFILE;
}

close UPLOADFILE;

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