This is an excellent question and although I thought I knew the answer (there isn't any way to do it!) I was surprised to find out there are in fact several ways to do it, or at least make it easier. I'll have to re-visit some of the scripts I've written.

I've hit this problem in the past and it always made me mad that I had to develop a CGI interface to something that I already had a Perl interface for, especially since I was writing a Perl program!

It's too bad I ran out of votes for this thread's poster and responders....