From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T03:06:07+09:00
Subject: Having challenge with multipart file upload

Hi:

I am using CGI and webrick to create a file upload facility.

I am using multipart_form from CGI as defined below:

  def create_multipart
    multipart_form(ENV["SCRIPT_NAME"]){
      '<input name="filename" value="val" size="30" type="file">' +
      submit("Uploadval","Uploadname")
      }
  end

The problem is reading the data on the server side.
The data comes back as:

  params['Uploadname'] = Tempfile
  params['filename'] = Tempfile

What I find strange is that the value of the submit button
is stored in a Tempfile. All I can say is, "Why?".

However, the real problem I am having is that when I try
to read the data from  the file, I get some garbage characters
at the front of the file. This only happens on larger files.
I have not done an exhaustive test, but the few files that
I tried that only had a line or two of data did not have this
problem.

Should I be using CGI#read_multipart? If so, how do I use it.
Also, how do I handle binary files.


Thanks for any help.
-- 
Jim Freeze
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