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Pete Bennett (SPAM_B_GONE@futureim.demon.co.uk) wrote:

: I have a form on my homepage (URL in sig) under the 'join us' section
: which invites people to enter some brief details about them self. It
: also asks them to email a copy of their CV. I'd really like to make it
: easier for people to respond by providing a facility for them to upload
: their CV directly into the site using a dialog box and then have the CGI
: script mail it to me as an attachment .... is this possible with Demon
: please (I have access to a Demon Diva account for running CGIs).

It's not that difficult to hand-code Perl code that creates multi-part
messages. I do that with one of our scripts that generates mail as a
result of a sales enquiry or registration; it wraps up the person's
details in a V-Card structure and bundles it as a text attachment to
the email that gets auto-sent to us. Just put something like:

    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_=------"

in the header of the email, and then the appropriate lines:

    ------=_NextPart_=----
    Content-Type: text/plain
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

or

    ------=_NextPart_=----
    Content-Type: application/octet-stream
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64

before each part. Then you need this at the end:

    ------=_NextPart_=------

Uploading files is straightforward - just use the facilities in CGI.pm
or cgi-lib.pl. You then have to encode the uploaded file into base64,
and I'm sure there are Perl modules to do this (or code it by hand).

Hope this helps,
Andrew.
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Andrew Haylett                      Tel. +44 1763 852222 Fax. +44 1763 853324
Software Engineer, Webmaster        Email: ajh@primag.co.uk
Primagraphics, Nr. Cambridge, UK    Web: http://www.primagraphics.co.uk/

In article <8q7c9d$183$1@atlas.primag>, Andrew Haylett
<ajh@primag.co.uk> writes

>Just put something like:
>
>    MIME-Version: 1.0
>    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_=------"

four leading --s and six trailing ... think you meant four trailing :(

>in the header of the email, and then the appropriate lines:
>
>    ------=_NextPart_=----

because this should be the boundary preceded by --

>    Content-Type: text/plain
>    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
>
>or
>
>    ------=_NextPart_=----
>    Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>    Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
>
>before each part. Then you need this at the end:
>
>    ------=_NextPart_=------

and this should be the boundary preceded AND trailed by --

-- 
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                          Still you never see the change from day to day
                                And no-one notices the customs slip away"

Richard Clayton (richard@turnpike.com) wrote:
: In article <8q7c9d$183$1@atlas.primag>, Andrew Haylett
: <ajh@primag.co.uk> writes

: >Just put something like:
: >
: >    MIME-Version: 1.0
: >    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_=------"

: four leading --s and six trailing ... think you meant four trailing :(

You're quite right, of course; I managed to cut and paste it
incorrectly from my CGI script, quite an achievement.

I was hoping that someone would come along and say, "Ditch all that
reverse-engineered homebrew stuff, use Perl module xxx for multi-part
base64 mail, available on Demon's servers." Perhaps...

--
Andrew Haylett                      Tel. +44 1763 852222 Fax. +44 1763 853324
Software Engineer, Webmaster        Email: ajh@primag.co.uk
Primagraphics, Nr. Cambridge, UK    Web: http://www.primagraphics.co.uk/

On 20 Sep 2000 13:32:44 GMT, Andrew Haylett <ajh@primag.co.uk> wrote:
>I was hoping that someone would come along and say, "Ditch all that
>reverse-engineered homebrew stuff, use Perl module xxx for multi-part
>base64 mail, available on Demon's servers." Perhaps...

MIME::Lite.

Install it in your home directory if ain't already on the servers; generally
this is something like:

% gunzip super-duper.tar.gz
% tar -xf super-duper.tar
% cd super-duper
% perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/your/cgi-bin/lib
% make
% make test
% make install

You then need to put:
BEGIN { unshift @INC, '/your/cgi-bin/lib'; }
in your script before you "use Super::Duper"

(although the paths are almost certainly wrong in many interesting ways)

-- 
Mike Bristow, seebitwopie  

Mike Bristow (mike@urgle.com) wrote:

: MIME::Lite.

: Install it in your home directory if ain't already on the servers; generally
: this is something like:

: % gunzip super-duper.tar.gz
: % tar -xf super-duper.tar
: % cd super-duper
: % perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/your/cgi-bin/lib
: % make
: % make test
: % make install

Hmm, let's try...

    Connected to uk-0-front.www.demon.net.
    Escape character is '^]'.

    UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (uk-0.www.demon.net)

    login: xxxxxx
    Password: 
    Last login: Wed Sep 20 13:46:17 from 158.152.57.99
    $ perl
    sh: perl:  not found
    $ make
    sh: make:  not found
    $

And according to
http://cgi.www.primagraphics.co.uk/cgi-bin/www.primag.co.uk/servinfo.pl
it doesn't seem to be installed on the server already.

Yes, I guess one can munge MIME::Lite into place by hand, but it's tedious...

Andrew.
-- 
Andrew Haylett                      Tel. +44 1763 852222 Fax. +44 1763 853324
Software Engineer, Webmaster        Email: ajh@primag.co.uk
Primagraphics, Nr. Cambridge, UK    Web: http://www.primagraphics.co.uk/

Now that I have my Showroom account, I'd really like to get an upload
facility on my site. Sorry if my questions are a bit dumb but I am new
to this.

In article <8q7c9d$183$1@atlas.primag>, Andrew Haylett
<ajh@primag.co.uk> writes
>Pete Bennett (SPAM_B_GONE@futureim.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
>: I have a form on my homepage (URL in sig) under the 'join us' section
>: which invites people to enter some brief details about them self. It
>: also asks them to email a copy of their CV. I'd really like to make it
>: easier for people to respond by providing a facility for them to upload
>: their CV directly into the site using a dialog box and then have the CGI
>: script mail it to me as an attachment .... is this possible with Demon
>: please (I have access to a Demon Diva account for running CGIs).
>
>It's not that difficult to hand-code Perl code that creates multi-part
>messages. I do that with one of our scripts that generates mail as a
>result of a sales enquiry or registration; it wraps up the person's
>details in a V-Card structure and bundles it as a text attachment to
>the email that gets auto-sent to us. Just put something like:
>
>    MIME-Version: 1.0
>    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_=------"
>
>in the header of the email, and then the appropriate lines:
>
>    ------=_NextPart_=----
>    Content-Type: text/plain
>    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
>
>or
>
>    ------=_NextPart_=----
>    Content-Type: application/octet-stream
>    Content-Transfer-Encoding: BASE64
>
>before each part. Then you need this at the end:
>
>    ------=_NextPart_=------
>

I understand this in concept but I expect the actual implementation will
be a bit more tricky... still that is the way to learn.


>Uploading files is straightforward - just use the facilities in CGI.pm
>or cgi-lib.pl. You then have to encode the uploaded file into base64,
>and I'm sure there are Perl modules to do this (or code it by hand).

Please could you tell me what CGI.pm is and where to get it? (likewise
cgi-lib.pl)


Thanks

-- 
Kind Regards,
              Pete Bennett

tel : +44 (0)7021 116 247