#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
use POSIX;

print header, start_html('upload form');

print start_form(), table(
Tr(
    td("File: "),
    td(filefield(-name=>'upload',
                -size=>50,
                -maxlength=>80),
    ),
    ),
Tr(
    td(),
    td(submit('button','submit'),
)
)
),
end_form(),
hr;

if (param()) {
my $filename =  param('upload');

    while (<$filename>) {
       print;
    }
    open (OUTFILE,">>/home/myname/public_html/upload") || die $!;
    
    while ($bytesread=read($filename,$buffer,1024)) {
       print OUTFILE $buffer;
       print "the thing is open";
    }
close $filename;    
print "The file should be uploaded if everything went right, which it 
+probably didn't.\n";
}
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