PERL file upload

Ken Elliott posted this at 18:33 — 2nd May 2000.

Joined: Jun 1999

Hello again. I wrote a PERL script that will upload an image file. But once the file is uploaded it becomes "garbled". In other words the picture transfers but looks like a fuzzy television picture after upload. I was wondering whether this is my scripts fault or is it server side. My guess is that it is somehow only uploading in ASCII or something. Anyone seen this before?

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Rob Pengelly posted this at 19:03 — 2nd May 2000.

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It sounds like the script is uploading the files in ASCII rather than Binary. I have never written a file upload script, so I an not certain how this is done sorry.

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Jonathan Michaelson posted this at 21:49 — 2nd May 2000.

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Hello,

I've written upload scripts for our products. It's important that after you've opend your file for output that you ensure that the data is in binmode in this manner:

code:

open(MYFILE,">$filename") or die;
binmode MYFILE;
print MYFILE $data;
close(MYFILE);[/code]

HTH.


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Suzanne posted this at 06:14 — 3rd May 2000.