The browser can't do it.

Here is how to use LWP::UserAgent. There are better scripts than this, which will also show upload progress, search for them.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url= 'http://somesite.net/cgi-bin/uploader.cgi';
my $file     = 'testout.tgz';
my $filezzzz = 'testzzzz.tgz';
my $ua       = new LWP::UserAgent;

my $req = POST $url,
  Content_Type => 'multipart/form-data',
  Content      => [
    p_upload => [ $file, $filezzzz ]    #actual file, name to use as u
+pload 
  ];

my $res = $ua->request($req);
if ( $res->is_success ) {
    print $res->as_string;
}
else {
    print $res->status_line;
}
exit 0;
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I suspect that you can't - if you think about it, the security implications would be rather serious if a script could automatically start uploading a file...

Err, just to clarify, by "a script" I mean "a script on the webserver"...

If you want to upload a file to a server that you have, say, ftp access to, then it should be fairly straightforward. You should also be able to write a script that uploads a file to a website provided that you are running the script on your machine, not the website (using mechanise?)

What you cannot do is write a script, place it on a server, and have that script automatically upload a file when someone accesses it.

Tom Melly, tom@tomandlu.co.uk