Lemme guess, you are doing your own form handling rather than using CGI? And are wondering why the environment variables don't have the data?

Surprise! That is one of the reasons why you aren't supposed to roll your own. On a POST the data does not come in in the environment (which is limited in size). It has to be read from the appropriate socket.

Try this snippet and see if it doesn't work a little better...

use CGI qw(:standard);
# time passes
my $param_value = param('param_name');
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