Use the $ENV{PATH_INFO} trick. Call your CGI program as http://www.foo.com/myprog.cgi/file.ext, and your web server will run myprog.cgi and store "/file.ext" in $ENV{PATH_INFO}. That's enough to fool the browser, and then you can use that value to fetch the file. (But keep security in mind, and don't allow them to put just ANY filename there!)

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