note perlig hm ok..<br><br> but thats not new to me.. the code i show you is only part of an package. the cgi object lies in the main. for that itīs not a scoping issue. <br> <code> my $filename = $q->param('upload_file'); </code> gives exactly the filename of the uploaded file. but not full qualified. <br> here you are right:<br> <code>$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS</code><br> $main::q is initialised in the main with <br><code>our $q = new cgi;</code><br> but the attribute should set like <code> use CGI qw/:standard/; use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser'; $CGI::POST_MAX=1024 * 100; # max 100K posts $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1; # no uploads</code> thanks for the pointer.<br> like Eliya said: <code>my $filename = $q->param('upload_file'); # returns (client-side) +name of the file my $filehandle = $q->upload('upload_file'); # returns handle to the +server-side temp file </code> thats still my code. but the filehandle is empty. thats what i want to fix. i want to know what this function do:<code>$q->upload('upload_file');</code> because it might be that there is a problem with fetching the data from the client..?! <br>sorry 4 my worse diction.. <br> <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-893562"> $perlig =~ s/pec/cep/g if 'errors expected'; </div></div> 958464 958566