cfaust-dougot wrote:
>   >>Argh you're right - since it was created in the global hash I thought it
>   >>was part of the globals and didn't look closely enough. 
>  Yep, I was just making sure.. That makes it even more of a mystery 
>  though, don't you think?

Well, although the CGI object is not a global, you are keeping the HTTP 
data in a global, %form_data.

>  Since then I went though created a new CGI object within that sub 
>  whenever I've needed it, and it seems to work. The problem only appears 
>  to happen if a new CGI object is created within the handler or within a 
>  sub that is called from the handler and it only effects upload?????? 
>  Bizzare, but I'm trying to move on..

This is probably because CGI.pm is reading all the form input and not 
leaving it for Apache2::Request to read.

>   >>You don't need it if you're using Apache::Request though.  You can 
>  use Apache::Request_or_ CGI, you don't need to use >>both at the same time.
>  I'm giving that a shot now, If I can get Apache2::Cookie to work right 
>  and find some way to duplicate CGI.pm's "escape" and "unescape" methods 
>  I won't need CGI.pm at all..

See the docs for porting escape_uri and escape_html from mod_perl 1 here:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/porting/compat.html

- Perrin