• TWiki version: 20001201
• Web server: Apache for Win32 1.3.19
• Server OS: WinNT Server 4.0

I had a fairly consistent problem with the file upload / attach feature of TWiki. I tried IE 5 and 5.5 and Navigator 4.X but both failed on uploading a file. The oops script reported that the file was empty.

It appeared that the issue was the upload script which uses the -s file size test on the var $tmpFilename. It seemed that the file size was always reported as null. I tried to use the vars $filePath and $fileName but I got the same result. So then I implemented the stat function as per the following code:

# if( ! -s "$tmpFilename" ){

($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size,$atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) = stat($filePath);

if(!($size > 0)) {

It appears to have resolved the problem that I was experiencing. Is the above code acceptable? Are there any issues with security?

Thanks

-- TWikiGuest - 28 Mar 2001

Answer

The are some changes in the TWikiAlphaRelease that are similar. Are you in a position to try this on your machine?

-- JohnTalintyre - 28 Mar 2001

Not really. We are new to TWiki and I do not want to introduce any glitches which might curb user acceptance. Thanks though. As well, I modified the sendEmail routine in wiki.pm to work with Net::SMTP since my system does not have a command line mailer. I thought I read in the TWiki docs that TWiki supported Net::SMTP if the SMTPMAILHOST variable was added to the TWikiPreferences. I tried that, but it did not work. I probably missed something though...

-- TWikiGuest - 28 Mar 2001

I had no trouble uploading files to Twiki 20001201 on Windows NT 4.0sp6a using ActivePerl 5.6 build 623 with Apache 1.3.17

-- DavidLeBlanc - 01 Apr 2001