I am attempting to implement an upload script and having problems.  I see from the apache::asp documentation (http://www.apache-asp.org/cgi.html) that the recommendation is to roll back to CGI v2.78.  This is not an option in my case- I am locked into 3.43.  I am hoping that somebody can offer suggestions on patching either apache::asp or CGI to get my script to function.  I am adapting the  upload script from here, and it looks pretty straight forward:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/uploading-files-cgi-perl/

Unfortunately, when I run the script, I end up with an empty file on my server.  I have edited CGI.pm to use an appropriate $CGITempFile::TMPDIRECTORY

Some other potentially relevant specs: Fedora 10, Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.0

Also, as another potential clue, I found which attempting to debug that I seem to have an empty request object… If I try to read directly from request->Form I get the error:

Can't locate object method "request" via package "Apache" at /home/httpd/html-MBA/Users/InputForms/Me

taManager4.html line 93. <--> , /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Apache/ASP.pm line 1522

Also, when I attempt to test the upload script from http://www.apache-asp.org/eg/file_upload.asp on my own server, I again seem to be stymied by the missing request object.

Many thanks for assisting in sorting this issue out.

Andrew Koebrick

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Problem script:

                        my $safe_filename_characters = "a-zA-Z0-9_.-";

                        my $upload_dir = "$ENV{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$cfg->{DocumentStore}";

                        my $filename = $query->param("Identifier-upload");

                        if ( !$filename )

                        {

                         print $query->header ( );

                         print "There was a problem uploading your photo (try a smaller file).";

                         exit;

                        }

                        my ( $name, $path, $extension ) = fileparse ( $filename, '\..*' );

                        $filename = $name . $extension;

                        $filename =~ tr/ /_/;

                        $filename =~ s/[^$safe_filename_characters]//g;

                        if ( $filename =~ /^([$safe_filename_characters]+)$/ )

                        {

                         $filename = $1;

                        }

                        else

                        {

                         die "Filename contains invalid characters";

                        }

                        my $upload_filehandle = $query->upload("Identifier-upload");

                        print "Location $upload_dir/$filename";

                        open ( UPLOADFILE, ">/home/httpd/html-MBA/$filename" ) or die "$!";

                        binmode UPLOADFILE;

                        while ( <$upload_filehandle> )

                        {

                         print UPLOADFILE;

                        }

                        close UPLOADFILE;