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		<description><![CDATA[So I started writing a netboot server for floor. I decided to start writing the web interface first, and learn myself some mason, web perl, and database-y things. Also found some things out about the process that were a little undocumented/misdocumented (now a word).
The biggest issue (so far) was file uploads. So here&#8217;s a quick [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I started writing a netboot server for floor. I decided to start writing the web interface first, and learn myself some mason, web perl, and database-y things. Also found some things out about the process that were a little undocumented/misdocumented (now a word).</p>
<p>The biggest issue (so far) was file uploads. So here&#8217;s a quick tutorial on how to do file uploads with perl, with mason.</p>
<p>In index.html (or wherever your form HTML code lives):</p>

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</pre></td><td class="code"><pre class="html" style="font-family:monospace;">&lt;form method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;upload.mas&quot; enctype=&quot;multipart/form-data&quot;&gt;
  &lt;input type=&quot;file&quot; name=&quot;file_name&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Submit&quot; /&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;</pre></td></tr></table></div>

<p>In upload.mas:</p>

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</pre></td><td class="code"><pre class="perl" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #339933;">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">%init</span><span style="color: #339933;">&gt;</span>
    <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">use</span> Apache2<span style="color: #339933;">::</span><span style="color: #006600;">Upload</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
&nbsp;
    <span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># $r is an Apache2::RequestRec, not an Apache2::Request like some places say it is</span>
    <span style="color: #b1b100;">my</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$req</span> <span style="color: #339933;">=</span> Apache2<span style="color: #339933;">::</span><span style="color: #006600;">Request</span><span style="color: #339933;">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #006600;">new</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">$r</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#41;</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
&nbsp;
    <span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># file_name refers to the form name you had in your HTML</span>
    <span style="color: #b1b100;">my</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$upload</span> <span style="color: #339933;">=</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$req</span><span style="color: #339933;">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #006600;">upload</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #ff0000;">'file_name'</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#41;</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
&nbsp;
    <span style="color: #b1b100;">my</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$fh</span> <span style="color: #339933;">=</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$upload</span><span style="color: #339933;">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #006600;">fh</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
    <span style="color: #000066;">open</span> OUTFILE<span style="color: #339933;">,</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;&gt;$where_ever_you_wanna_save_the)file&quot;</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
&nbsp;
    <span style="color: #000066;">binmode</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$fh</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
    <span style="color: #000066;">binmode</span> OUTFILE<span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
&nbsp;
    <span style="color: #000066;">print</span> OUTFILE <span style="color: #0000ff;">$line</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">foreach</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">my</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$line</span> <span style="color: #009900;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #339933;">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">$fh</span><span style="color: #339933;">&gt;</span><span style="color: #009900;">&#41;</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
    <span style="color: #000066;">close</span> OUTFILE<span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
    <span style="color: #000066;">close</span> <span style="color: #0000ff;">$fh</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span>
<span style="color: #339933;">&lt;/</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">%init</span><span style="color: #339933;">&gt;</span></pre></td></tr></table></div>

<p>In your httpd.conf:</p>
<pre>APREQ2_READLIMIT 2G # Sets the max size of your user's uploads to 2GB</pre>
<p>I intentionally skipped over error handling code and all of the httpd.conf config for the sake of brevity (I did say brief tutorial). Since I need to allow for larger file sizes than Apache does by default (64MB), I spent quite some time looking for that Apache directive.</p>
<p>Hopefully this saves someone some time.</p>

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