According to Geoff Hutchison: > At 6:46 PM -0800 11/14/01, Stephen L Arnold wrote: > >Come to think of it, I promised to contribute that script a while > >back; who should I send it to? The guy who wrote it isn't into > >supporting it, but he's okay with me sending it in. It's not that > >cryptic (as far as perl goes, anyway). Let me know... > > E-mail it to the list. Unforunately, we no longer have an FTP server > through SourceForge, so e-mail is probably the easiest way to submit > things. Although if someone knows how to get those "Browse File" web > forms to work with appropriate CGIs, please contact me. :-)
I've always wondered this myself, so I did some searches and read up a bit. A lot of HTML tutorials out there don't mention file input in forms, which was an extension to HTML 3.0, but became standard in 3.2. Here are a couple references that tell you what to do at the form end, and what happens behind the scenes: http://MasterCGI.com/howtoinfo/formtutorial.shtml http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1867.html Essentially, you have a form something like: <form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/getfile" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" size="30" name="myfile" accept="text/plain"> <input type="text" size="30" name="description" value=""> <input type="submit" value="Upload"> </form> The trick is to write a CGI program that handles the multipart/form-data encoding type that's needed for file input. In addition to the REQUEST_METHOD and CONTENT_LENGTH environment variables you're used to dealing with for POST requests, you also have something like: CONTENT_TYPE=multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------1418534810405220191815508293 And the data read from stdin will look something like: -----------------------------1418534810405220191815508293 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="myfile"; filename="t.txt" Content-Type: text/plain line 1 line 2 ... last line -----------------------------1418534810405220191815508293 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="description" description line -----------------------------1418534810405220191815508293-- I haven't actually written any code to deal with this, but I'd bet that the Perl CGI.pm can already handle this encoding type. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
