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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: libcurl with Ada - how to HTTP POST transfer with large file
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Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com> writes:
> You are correct Dmitry.  Thanks.  The multiple examples of code that I
> looked at appeared to set a relative path for the upload folder
> config.  It would actually make more sense for it to BE relative since
> it must be under the web root.  However, as soon as I set the upload
> folder config to be an absolute path, the 500 error code went away.
>
> These are the kinds of things that if commented well in the spec,
> would save people hours of work.  A sentence fragment in the spec that
> said (--must be absolute path) would have saved me a lot of time an
> I'd have the same amount of hair as I did yesterday. However, I would
> prefer if the option recognized it as a relative path and prepended
> the web root folder onto the front.

Is it possible that it *can* be a relative path, but not relative
to what you expected it to be?  If it just passes it as a string
to open/fopen/opendir/whatever, it's probably relative to whatever
happens to be the current directory of the invoking process.

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