[root@devel3 root]# cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -wT use strict; use CGI; my $q = new CGI; print $q->header(); my $ct = $q->param('ct'); print $ct; [root@devel3 root]# ./test.pl ct=foo%0A Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 foo [root@devel3 root]#