And yet meta() gives the error above (UPDATE: oic, it's an optional export (though I cannot find the subroutine). we were not told that symbols were being explicitly imported...). The CGI here (v2.56) states:

       There is no support for the HTTP-EQUIV type of <META> tag.
       This is because you can modify the HTTP header directly
       with the header() method.  For example, if you want to
       send the Refresh: header, do it in the header() method:

           print $q->header(-Refresh=>'10; URL=http://www.capricorn.co
+m');
[download]

No meta() anywhere. Refresh is a possible value of the HTTP-EQUIV meta tag.

UPDATE: I see that the current version is 2.81, wahoo. Hrmm. Oh well. Seems to me it's be nicer to use the actual HTTP header than the meta tag anyways, given the option. But it looks like TIMTOWTDI

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perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"