The reason why im doing this my own was is because this module will go into production software and i dont think i can use CGI in production software?

I dislike CGI.pm, but I don't see why you couldn't use it in production software. People all over the globe are using this piece of (imnsho) ugly code in production, and the module has proven to be very stable and capable.

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