Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] MacPerl, multipart/form-data, CGI.pm

[Christian Schaller <schaller@SPUDS.LPL.Arizona.EDU>]

At 4:16 PM -0800 3/10/99, Bruce Van Allen wrote:

>>I see on CSPAN there's a CGI.pm v 2.49 available. Does anyone know
>>it /that/ will do the trick? I suppose I could just download and
>>install the thing myself and find out, huh?
>
>I think we'd have heard on the MacPerl lists if a version of CGI.pm were
>finally able to handle file uploads on Mac.

As it happens, I downloaded 2.49, fixed the newlines, stuck it my site_perl,
and it seems to work. I admit, however, that I haven't tried to do much
with it. At the very least, CGI.pm 2.49 and MacPerl /can/ pull name=value
pairs from a multipart/form-data encoded stream. That's more than 2.36 could
do.

>Also, remember this: when you're using CGI.pm's functions to write your
>HTML form, and you want it to handle file uploads, be sure to use the
>function start_form_multipart() instead of plain start_form() [and check my
>capitalization]...

Ah, no, I encode HTML by hand, even when it's going to be output by a perl
program.

>- Bruce

--Chris


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Christian J. Schaller                            Applications Systems Analyst
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory                 schaller@spuds.lpl.arizona.edu
The University of Arizona               http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~schaller/
Tucson, AZ 85721-0077                                            520/621-7200



==== Want to unsubscribe from this list?
==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-webcgi-request@macperl.org