Just an aside, but what is the point of format => 'Application/msword' ?
Anyone can rename their file to look like '*.doc', and you can only
determine the file content when you have uploaded it ( at which point you
SHOULD check).
Regards
- Roger -
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From: "Ryan Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 4:27 AM
Subject: File upload problems still!
> Curtis+List,
>
> I checked out the CGI::Safe.pm module, and so far, I'm having the same
> problem. The script goes to "Just about to get your resume!"; then quits.
> I don't have access to server logs, so I don't know what is going on. I
> think my server is running Apache, and I've been snooping to try and find
> the config files (I got a >find / -name httpd.conf going right now)
>
> Is there anything perlish wrong here? It works on
Activestate/Apache/Win98,
> so I think it must be a server thing, but I dunno.
>
> Here are the relevant snippets:
>
> <code>
> use CGI::Safe;
> my $cgi = CGI::Safe->new( DISABLE_UPLOADS => 0,
> POST_MAX => 100 * 1024 );
> ...
> print $cgi->filefield('resume','starting value',40,180);
> ...
> print "Just about to get your resume!";
> # only allow Word docs
> my $file = $cgi->get_upload( file_name => 'resume', format =>
> 'Application/msword' );
>
> if ( $file->{ error } ) {
> print "Your file was not uploaded. Sorry."
> }
> print "Just got your resume!";
> </code>
>
> This is getting a little OT, but my find was successful, and I think this
> applies to me:
>
> <Directory /home/*/public_html>
> Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
> AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
> </Directory>
>
> Ok, after looking at Apache docs for 20mins, I can do an .htaccess file to
> control that directory, but I'm going to send this, just in case anyone
can
> make any sense of it.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> Sorry this is so rambling, it was written over the course of about an
hour.
> I'll be better about my future questions!
>
>
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