in reply to Not getting form data from stdin

Okay, it's been a while since I played with cgi scripts and my memory isn't what it used to be, but since when does a cgi script take input from C<STDIN>? I think OP would benefit from reading the docs for CGI. It might be old, but it's simple.

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