note giulienk The behavior of sending the entire filepath to the server is peculiar to Internet Explorer. So you should filter the filename with a regex to have a valid filename. Something like the following could do: <code> my ($new_file_name) = $full_path_name =~ m!(?:.*\\|.*\/)?(.+)$!; </code> <B>Update</B>: well, it seems your problem was of another nature and already been solved: it's a bad habit to post before reading the full thread... sorry <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=1 BORDER=0><TR><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD><TD></TD><TD BGCOLOR=#000099></TD></TR></TABLE><TT>$|=$_='1g2i1u1l2i4e2n0k',map{print"\7",chop;select$,,$,,$,,$_/7}m{..}g</TT> 143017 143017