I am trying to process an uploaded file in a Perl program, using CGI::Application. I need to get the content type of the uploaded file. From what I read, the following should work, but it doesn't for me: my $filename = $q->param("file"); my $contenttype = $q->uploadInfo($filename)->{'Content-Type'}; As it turns out, $q->uploadInfo($...
I have a run mode in my CGI::Application web-app that I would like to be able to trigger from the command line so i can automate it. From the web-app's perspective it does some processing then sends the results in an email. When called from the web interface it passes in a set of parameters (email address, which query to run, date, etc...
My web app runs on Apache mod_perl using CGI::Application. I want to provide a download of a generated file. In the past (before we were using mod_perl and CGI::App) I just spooled out a csv file to STDOUT as it was generated. Now I'm shooting for a little more refinement - creating an Excel spreadsheet using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel -...
I learn best by taking apart something that already does something and figuring out why decisions were made in which manner. Recently I've started working with Perl's CGI::Application framework, but found i don't really get along well with the documentation (too little information on how to best structure an application with it). There ...