FAQ 9.6 How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a file on another machine?
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From: PerlFAQ Server on 30 Jul 2010 00:00 This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq9.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 9.6: How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a file on another machine? In this case, download means to use the file upload feature of HTML forms. You allow the web surfer to specify a file to send to your web server. To you it looks like a download, and to the user it looks like an upload. No matter what you call it, you do it with what's known as multipart/form-data encoding. The "CGI.pm" module (which comes with Perl as part of the Standard Library) supports this in the "start_multipart_form()" method, which isn't the same as the "startform()" method. See the section in the "CGI.pm" documentation on file uploads for code examples and details. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The perlfaq-workers, a group of volunteers, maintain the perlfaq. They are not necessarily experts in every domain where Perl might show up, so please include as much information as possible and relevant in any corrections. The perlfaq-workers also don't have access to every operating system or platform, so please include relevant details for corrections to examples that do not work on particular platforms. Working code is greatly appreciated. If you'd like to help maintain the perlfaq, see the details in perlfaq.pod. |