[ale] Uploading to a web page

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

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>> I am trying to create a page that will allow me to upload a 
>> file to the webserver.

> 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.

(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
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200202061110

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