I would like to create a new GD::Image with a file uploaded through a web page. The CGI.pm documentation says that files are put in a tmp directory with a filename like CGIXXXXX. I was wondering how I could get direct access to that file without first copying it to another directory. The GD::image constructor says it can take the following types of files:
  1) a simple filehandle, such as STDIN
  2) a filehandle glob, such as *PNG
  3) a reference to a glob, such as \*PNG
  4) an IO::Handle object
  5) the pathname of a file

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I have tried passing the $fh directly from $cgi->upload('my_file_field'), but I get errors like: Bad file descriptor. I would really like to load the image directly instead of having to copy it to a different directory first. Is this possible?

In reply to Creating GD::Image directly from CGI->upload() by saberworks

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