Warren Young wrote:

> Just to follow up, the source of this limit appears to be with Perl
> itself.  Perl won't use 64-bit ints unless it is compiled to do so,
> even if the platform will support 64-bit ints.  Since CGI.pm uses a
> scalar to hold the expected length of the file, the number looks
> negative when it's over 2**31-1.  CGI.pm has a check in it for this,
> and it dies when the file length is "negative".

I guess you could play with this...

http://search.cpan.org/~tels/bignum-0.15/lib/bigint.pm

... and see if you can get CGI.pm using it.

--
Ian Cass




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