Scott R. Godin wrote:
> script is at http://phpfi.com/78748
> 
> I followed the instructions in CGI.pm as best I could, and from what I
> read the upload() function is supposed to return a filehandle ? (it
> doesn't say whether this is a direct FH to the tempfile or not)
> 
> I had dome some preliminary testing with one-liners and was pretty sure
> this would work, but what I wind up with in the attachment is a file
> containing the name of the file, not its actual contents.
> 
> what did I do wrong? I can't figure it out. :/
> 

Just because it is easy to overlook and fairly common, did you include
the 'enctype' in the form tag?  For instance,

[form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/cgi-bin/request" method="POST"]

HTH,

http://danconia.org

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