Uploading File Problems

[kidd]

Hello Monks:

I have a little script that lets users upload files to my server. My server is currently running in an UNIX OS.

The problem is that when a user with Windows OS has a file name or route the the file name with spaces, when uploading to the server it doesnt upload anything.

i.e.

c:/my documents/my image.jpg

Right now I had to set up a Javascript in the form that ckecks if there is any space in the file name or the route.

The thing is that I would like to be able to let them upload the files even with spaces...but I dont know how...

Hope that I can hear suggestions from you...

THANKS

[Ovid]

Show us your Perl code (a minimal test case, if possible) and the HTML form tag. With that, we can probably provide you with a better answer.

Cheers,
Ovid

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[gjb]

It might help to change spaces to %20, ie. hex value for space.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

[nothingmuch]

You should implement this using the module URI::Escape.

Update: I R silly... thanks to UnderMine for pointing that out. Forget what I said.

-nuffin
zz zZ Z Z #!perl

[UnderMine]

Arn't these spaces that need replacing on the client not the server?

Hope it helps
UnderMine

[UnderMine]

A quick question

Can you confirm whether the script is receiving the file but can't store it or it just does not recieve the file at all.

If you are receiving the file but it is not possible to save it $filename=~s/\s/_/g; or even just use a $filename='lastupload.data'; to see if it is the spaces in the filename on the server that are causing the issue.

Hope this helps
UnderMine