Re: <FILE> upload using Perl

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:54:56AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:54:28AM -0700, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
[..]
> > CGI.pm is your friend.  See 
> > http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html#upload_caveats
> 
> For the python bigots, there is a similar thing in python too:
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/Using_the_cgi_module.html
> 
> search for "upload". But I couldn't get file upload to work on
> netscape-4.72 yesterday. Does the browser support it ?

I just verified that the upload works differently with IE-5.0.
With netscape, just the filename string was uploaded. With IE, the
contents of the file was uploaded as a url-encoded form.

lynx doesn't support INPUT TYPE="file".

	-Arun