Order of attachments in Multipart POST

[David Wake]

Does anyone know of a way to control the order of file attachments
sent in a multipart POST statement? They seem to be sent in a random
order each time.


use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $response = $ua->request(POST 'http://www.foo.com/forminput.cgi,
Content_Type => 'form-data',
Content => [
file1 => ["/home/dwake/file1"],
file2 => ["/home/dwake/file2"],
] );

The order in which file1 and file2 are attached seems to vary each
time this script is run. I would like to always send them in the same
order if possible.

Thanks,

David

 

[Tulan W. Hu]

Does anyone know of a way to control the order of file attachments
sent in a multipart POST statement? They seem to be sent in a random
order each time.


use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $response = $ua->request(POST 'http://www.foo.com/forminput.cgi,
Content_Type => 'form-data',
Content => [
file1 => ["/home/dwake/file1"],
file2 => ["/home/dwake/file2"],
] );

The order in which file1 and file2 are attached seems to vary each
time this script is run. I would like to always send them in the same
order if possible.

Why do you need to care about the order of the files?
Use CGI module in the forminput.cgi and
$query->param('file1') and $query->param('file2') will allow
you to get the individual files. The order is not important.