Uploading files using cgi
Posted: 17. August 2010 07:30Hi
I am trying to use cgi to allow users to upload files but every time i click "submit" button to upload a file it just shows the text version of cgi file
CGI SCRIPT:
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also when i try uploading through http://localhost/ and click on submit button, nothin happens
I am trying to use cgi to allow users to upload files but every time i click "submit" button to upload a file it just shows the text version of cgi file
CGI SCRIPT:
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#!C:/xampp/perl/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw ( fatalsToBrowser );
use File::Basename;
$CGI::POST_MAX = 1024 * 5000;
my $safe_filename_characters = "a-zA-Z0-9_.-";
my $upload_dir = "C:/xampp/htdocs/upload";
my $query = new CGI;
my $filename = $query->param("photo");
my $email_address = $query->param("email_address");
if ( !$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 = $query->upload("photo");
open ( UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename" ) or die "$!";
binmode UPLOADFILE;
while ( <$upload_filehandle> )
{
print UPLOADFILE;
}
close UPLOADFILE;
print $query->header ( );
print <<END_HTML;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Thanks!</title>
<style type="text/css">
img {border: none;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Thanks for uploading your photo!</p>
<p>Your email address: $email_address</p>
<p>Your photo:</p>
<p><img src="/upload/$filename" alt="Photo" /></p>
</body>
</html>
END_HTML
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>File Upload</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="C:/xampp/cgi-bin/upload.cgi" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<p>Photo to Upload: <input type="file" name="photo" /></p>
<p>Your Email Address: <input type="text" name="email_address" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit Form" /></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
also when i try uploading through http://localhost/ and click on submit button, nothin happens