On 3 Jun 2008, at 18:00, risadmc@gmail.com wrote:

> Ok, I'm uploading a file to a 3rd party. The file is being uploaded to
> an https site with a cgi extension. The 3rd party finally provided me
> with a snippet of their Perl code. They see the attempt coming
> through, but there is no data. I understand how all this works... i
> think there's just a dot i'm not connecting somewhere. PLEASE HELP...
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
> In my html file I have...
> <font size="4" color="#000066">File: </font><INPUT TYPE="file"
> NAME="XML_DATA" size="47"></p>
> <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submitButtonName" VALUE="Submit Query"></p>


I'd suspect you aren't setting the enctype attribute in your form  
element correctly, but you didn't provide that bit of the code, so it  
is hard to say.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3

You also appear to be using <font> (which is deprecated) where you  
should have a <label> and your HTML is invalid due to a missing start  
tag for a paragraph.

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