You know, CGI.pm really isn't very difficult to install. It's a single file and there's no XS component to deal with. If you really are having to deal with versions of Perl earlier than 5.004_04 you could just copy the CGI.pm file into your cgi-bin directory and everything will work fine.

Of course if people are using a version of Perl that old then they have security issues far more serious than just having buggy CGI scripts.

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