On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alexander Farber (EED) wrote:

> How do you handle uploading files when using multi-paged
> forms (for example entered text and a picture are previewed
> before storing into the database and special directory)?
> 
> Uploaded files can't be passed as hidden fields, right?
> So do you let your users to upload the same file several
> times and then delete the temporary files with a cron job?

Not multiple times, but let them upload and store in a temp file, which
you can store the filename as a hidden field. Use File::MkTemp to create
the filenames.

And delete temp files older than 60 minutes or so periodically.

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