There are a couple of good CGI.pm methods to use. Of course, you'll have HTML looking something like this: 
<form action="/cgi-bin/upload.cgi" method="POST" enctype="multipart/fo
+rm-data">
File to upload:
<input type="file" name="file">
</form>

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The other important thing to note is that CGI::upload() will return a filehandle you can read the file from: 
my $file = $q->param('file');
my $fh = $q->upload($file);
my $buffer;

open(OUTPUT, $output_filename) || warn "Can't create local file: $!";

# just in case you're not Unix
binmode $fh;
binmode OUTPUT;

while ( read($fh, $buffer, 16384)) {
    print OUTPUT $buffer;
}

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In reply to Re: How do I parse multipart/form-data?!? by chromatic
in thread How do I parse multipart/form-data?!? by PipTigger

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