diff --git a/blobserver/go/upload-file.pl b/blobserver/go/upload-file.pl
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# Lame upload script for development testing only.  Doesn't do the
+# preupload step and hard-codes the Go server's upload path (not
+# conformant to spec).
+
+use strict;
+my $file = shift or die
+    "Usage: upload-file.pl: <file>";
+-r $file or die "$file isn't readable.";
+-f $file or die "$file isn't a file.";
+
+die "bogus filename" if $file =~ /[ <>&\!]/;
+
+my $sha1 = `sha1sum $file`;
+chomp $sha1;
+$sha1 =~ s/\s.+//;
+
+system("curl", "-u", "foo:foo", "-F", "sha1-$sha1=\@$file",
+       "http://127.0.0.1:3179/camli/upload") and die "upload failed.";
+print "Uploaded http://127.0.0.1:3179/camli/sha1-$sha1\n";
diff --git a/blobserver/go/upload.sh b/blobserver/go/upload.sh
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-#!/bin/sh
-
-curl -u foo:foo -F sha1-7c63f74bbe0b1de55ec41ad0d9297a3762ecfdbc=@/bin/true http://127.0.0.1:3179/camli/upload
-