Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Uploading over http

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

At 3:41 PM +0930 9/29/99, Adam Jenkins wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm having a bit of trouble, which may or may not be possible to solve.  I
>need to allow people to upload to one of my mac web servers, but I don't
>want to give them full ftp access. So I thought that it would be a cool
>idea to give them limited access via the web browser ftp form thing.  I had
>wished to use cgi.pm, but was told (in the cgi.pm information) that file
>upload does not tend to work very well with Macs, if at all.

Hmmm. What version? Mine work fine with current CGI.pm installations. 
With earlier versions there were some problems for folks using 
Windows...

>
>The problem? It appears that I am limited to files of around 20k. This is
>bareable, but it would be best if there wasn't such a small size limit to
>the files. I gather that this is a property of the file upload function,
>not perl per se, but I am wondering if MacPerl can get around this.  Is it
>possible?  Or do I need to work in C or something to make this happen?

I haven't had this problem either. Several sites I've developed, 
using both CGI.pm and the older cgi-lib.pl, handle files larger than 
20k without problem.

Let's see your code, especially the part that catches and parses the 
uploaded material..


- Bruce

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