It's something weird about the environment that CGI programs are executed in on Tripod.

I tested this on Tripod and I couldn't get it to work when using CGI.pm in the functional style - however it does work if you are using it in the OO style:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
require CGI;

my $cgi = CGI->new();

print $cgi->header(),"\n";
print "<p>Hello, World</p>";
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I don't know what is going on here though ...

/J\