in a nutshell, i am using CGI.pm to handle uploading files to a webserver. Everything seems to work fine, except for one (not so) edge case when the enduser path of the file to be uploaded contains a special character such as comma, ampersand, or others. CGI.pm acts like it is uploading the file, but nothing is ever read in to the in-memory var that is later flushed to a file. the completely embarrassing, but-in-other-circumstances-usable code for handling the file upload is below. 
my $file = $cgi->param('file');

select((select($file), $|=1)[0]);
                    
my $tempFile;
while(<$file>) {
    $tempFile .= $_;
}
close($file);

mkdir("/var/www/html/pmuze/upload/$username");
open(LOCAL, ">/var/www/html/pmuze/upload/$username/$fileName") or warn
+ $!;
select((select(LOCAL), $|=1)[0]);
binmode(LOCAL);
print LOCAL $tempFile;
close(LOCAL);

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what kind of crack am i smoking here? (i also have data::dumper's of the offending cgi objects if that would help)

In reply to CGI File Upload Problems by jupe

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