From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-11-04T01:25:31+09:00
Subject: Re: CGI uses file size to distinguish between regular values and files

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:43:49 +0900, Jesper Olsen wrote:
> I'm using the CGI module for file upload - I think it works, it is
> just poorly documented.
> 
> At least it works for me - I use it mainly for uploading binary
> files (jpg images) - typically in the range 1k-100k bytes in size
> - but also larger.

> Anyway, my code looks like this (upload.rbx)
> cgi=CGI.new
> if cgi.has_key?('image')
>   image=cgi['image'][0].read
> end

This is what I *don't* want. I shouldn't *have* to handle it
differently (I think that the Perl mechanism is even worse), but I
should be able handle it differently if I want.

Not only that, as the OP said at the beginning of this thread, if
the size of the file is large enough, then *all* CGI parameters are
turned into tempfiles, requiring a #read on all of them, depending
on the size of the file being uploaded. When I have a file uploaded,
I have the file and five other parameters. I shouldn't have to do a
#read on all of the parameters.

Give me a way to access the temp files behind the data, but I'm not
at all interested in *having* to access the temp files unless I
explicitly want to.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.11.03
                                         * 11.15.01