[Slashcode-development] can't upload a file with multipart/form-data submissions

[James E. M. <jm...@tr...>]

Hi,

Has anybody had any luck with uploading files to a Bender-based site
using form enctype="multipart/form-data"?  I've been hitting a brick 
wall.  I tried lots of things, and read lots of perldoc Apache
and perldoc Apache::Request, but I can't seem to figure it out.

So far I've found that simply relying on the getCurrentForm()
routine in Bender returns a blank form, which is to be expected 
(I think) because Apache->request only works for 
enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded".  So I tried 
my own version of that by calling Apache::Request->new($r),
but although I get closer, still no data.  I am not sure 
what to pass to the constructor for the $r, which maybe is the 
problem?  I am currently doing:

my $r = Apache->request;  ## as in Utility.pm
my $apr = Apache::Request->new($r); 
my $status = $apr->parse;  ## explicit call of parse unneccessary, but
       			   ## $status is always zero == no data
print $r->as_string; ## a debugging dump, can see no data is getting up.

Any hints would be appreciated.

thanks in advance,
james

ps,
As to why I am doing this, well, I would like to set up a plugin to 
accept academic papers in place of the articles.  My colleagues are,
um, complete html idiots.  But they can dump Adode PDF files, so 
I figured an easy interface would be to allow uploading pdf files.
This would also be useful for writing html articles and then uploading
them, rather than futzing with editing within a browser text box (of
course, lynx lets me spring open emacs, but people who use windows
are not so blessed).

sorry for the lengthy submission.
james