Fellow Monks,

I'm a newbie to cgi, I am trying fileuploads, and am having trouble getting them to work. The file is created alright, it's just that nothing gets printed into it (I'm trying to upload jpegs). If anybody could show me what I'm doing wrong, it would be greatly appreciated. I am trying this in windows 2000 using IIS webserver.
Here's my snippet: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); #errors will show in the browser

my $upload_dir = "C:\\TEMP\\";
my $newStyle;
my $co=new CGI;

my $filename = $co->param("file");# || error( $co, "No file received."
+ );
$filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
$filename =~ s/[^\w.-]/_/g;

my $filehandle = $co->upload("file");

open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename" or die "Cannot create file $
+upload_dir/$filename: $!\n";

binmode $filehandle;
binmode UPLOADFILE;

while (defined($_ = <$filehandle>)){
         print UPLOADFILE or warn "Possible disk full error: $!\n";
         }
close UPLOADFILE or warn "Possible truncation on $upload_dir/$filename
+: $!\n";

print $co->header,
$co->start_html(
 -title=>'fileupload.cgi',
 -BGCOLOR=>'#FFFFFF',
 -style=>{-src=>'http://localhost/html/stylesheet.css',
 -code=>$newStyle}
),
$co->p,
"\$filename - <b>$filename</b> moved to the <b>$upload_dir</b> directo
+ry!",
$co->p,
$co->end_html;
exit 0;

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Thanks in advance,
Jonathan

In reply to cgi upload incorrectly creating blank files by Anonymous Monk

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