$ perl -MData::Dumper -e "use CGI; my $q = CGI->new;print $q->header; print Dumper($q)" Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 $VAR1 = bless( { '.header_printed' => '1', '.charset' => 'ISO-8859-1', '.parameters' => [], '.fieldnames' => {} }, 'CGI' );