Incorrect filename for form submission of file not from filesystem

[spazm]

Eckankar reported on Oct 3, 2011

As far as I can read from the WWW::Mechanize documentation (http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/WWW-Mechanize-1.70/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm#%24mech-%3Esubmit_form%28_..._%29), you can do the following to submit a file from a string:

{{{
$mech->submit_form(
    fields => {
        'UploadedFile' => [[ undef, 'test2.txt', Content => $content ], 1],
    }
);
}}}

This should submit a file with name text2.txt, containing the text in $content (in this case, 'The file is a lie.').

The request failed with an internal server error, however, so I examined the request that was sent, and found this:

{{{
--xYzZY
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="UploadedFile"; filename="ARRAY(0x9567570)"

The file is a lie.
--xYzZY
}}}

That is clearly not the filename I specified, so it would seem that either the documentation is wrong, or the module is bugged here.

The same thing happens if I use with_fields instead of fields.

This is using WWW::Mechanize 1.70 from CPAN on Linux.

Details

Imported from Google Code issue 218 via archive

• Type: Defect
• Date: Oct 3, 2011
• Reporter: Eckankar
• Owner: ----
• Priority: Medium
• Status: New