Web-centric Computing

Example Code

Forms: File Upload

 <form method="post"  
       enctype="multipart/form-data"
       accept="text/plain"
       action="http://users.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/cgi-bin/3172/form/upload.cgi">
  <p>
   <input type="file"   name="upload" size="60" />
   <br />
   <input type="submit" name="submit" value="upload file" />
  </p>
 </form>

Note that

• The enctype attribute must be multipart/form-data to tell the server that there are multiple sections in the input.
  • Normally there is just one part.
  • With file upload, the file is sent in a second section.
• The form must be submitted with method="post" since there are two sections to the input, and method="get" can only do one.
• The accept attribute may be used to limit which types of files can be sent.
  • Not all browsers bother to check this.

http://www.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/cgi-bin/3172/form/upload.cgi

Version:

30 October 2001

Author:

J. Blustein <jamie@cs.dal.ca>

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