Re: Apache2::Upload ->upload method dies silently if any file field is empty

On 7/18/25 13:35, Randolf Richardson via modperl wrote:
>> On Jul 17, 2025, at 1:32PM, Alex Aminoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I have written up a description and replication code here:
>>>
>>> http://back.nber.org/sys-admin/apache2_upload_bug.html
>>>
>>> Is this something anyone else has seen?
>> Hi, Alex. Yes, this is a known problem that has been discussed on the mod_perl and mod_perl dev mailing lists going back to 2022 and which came to a boil in February 2024. Check the mailing list archives to read more about the sad state we are in.
>>
>> Essentially, libapreq 2.17 is broken, as you have discovered, and it should not be used, imho. If you can access the svn repository for libapreq, I think the trunk might have a fix for the problem you have encountered, but it hasn't been officially released as 2.18. Personally, I continue to use an older version of libapreq that I know works well.
> 	Compiling libapreq2 v2.18 from SVN sources resolved all these
> problems for me, and I've been using it on multiple production
> servers (Debian Linux, and each hosting multiple web sites that are
> written either partly or entirely in Perl and relying on mod_perl2)
> for nearly 10 months now.
>
> 	If anyone's interested in feedback on libapreq2 v2.18, please take
> this as positive feedback -- it resolved all the problems I
> encountered in v2.17 and it also has not caused new/other problems.
>
Thank you to all who responded. With the help of our FreeBSD 
consultants, Klara Systems, I was able to get a patch to the FreeBSD 
ports version of libapreq2 installed and showed that it solves my problem.

  - Alex Aminoff

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