Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] File Upload cgi - Yet again...

[Adam Jenkins <adam.jenkins@flinders.edu.au>]

Hi,

>  I need a file upload cgi - just something that will let the clients upload
>a file which the server will place in a single directory and then direct the
>user to another web page.

I had very minimal success, but I guess I had some. Basically, I have 
a cgi while will accept file uploads so long as they are under a 
certain size. It is this size restriction which is the big problem, 
and I have yet to work out how to get around it. I am not sure how 
well it is working, as I haven't touched it for months and left it as 
an unfinished project, but you can have a look if you are interested.

The reason I haven't finished it, though, as that now I'm using an 
alternative procedure. With WebStar there is a file upload plug-in, 
so what I do is have people use that to upload the file, and then 
send them automatically to a page which gets the details of the file 
and feeds that into a perl cgi. That cgi then creates the index page, 
or builds links, or does pretty much whatever I want - including, in 
one instance, cleaning up the html tags. In order to make it easier 
on the user, I also use that cgi to display the contents of the 
upload directory in the form as a pull down menu, so that they don't 
have to recall the filename.

Clearly it would be much better if I could handle larger file sizes. 
The problem, as far as I understand it, is that there is a 32k limit 
on post transfers or something, and that you need to do something 
special to read more than 32k. Webstar has an apple event, 
WSAPI_ReadHTTPData which can be read multiple times to get over this 
problem, but I don't know if it is possible to use this in Perl, nor 
whether or not it would actually work.

Regards,

Adam.
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