[ale] Uploading to a web page

[Greg]

CGI is not the only server side technology, in fact it seems pretty much
dead as other technologies place a lesser load on the server and are
more secure and feature rich.  ASP (not my first choice by a long shot),
ColdFusion, JSP/servlets/java beans, and PHP are some languages (and
there *is* a server side Javascript too). All are in my opinion easier
than Perl,(though Perl can be used in PHP).

If you want a page that will upload a file to a server, then please
contact me offline with the info needed to do it (web server, OS, any
language preferences, etc..) and I would be more than happy to
help/write it for you.

Greg
Unemployed Web Programmer


On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:12, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> >> I am trying to create a page that will allow me to upload a 
> >> file to the webserver.
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> > If I'm not mistaken, this can be done without any CGI. There's 
> > a simple javascript that will do this.
> 
> Javascript is strictly client-side only (i.e. in the user's 
> browser). To write something to the webserver, you need a 
> server-side program, all of which use CGI as the protocol 
> to do so.
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> (If you are referring to creation of the "browse" button on 
> the web page, that's created by the browser via a html 
> input tag)
> 
> The perl CGI module is your best bet - not only is it easy to 
> use and fairly well documented, but it's completely open 
> source, so you can see exactly how it does it. Keep in mind that 
> file uploads can create very large POST request, so you may need 
> to up your limit in your webserver's configuration file. (I 
> don't think this is an issue for thttpd, but it definitely is 
> for Apache).
> 
> Greg Sabino Mullane
> greg at turnstep.com
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