Are you using GET or POST?

You have several options: 1) You can pass back an HTML redirect to the browser, with the name value pairs in the CGI you are redirecting to:

http://www.blah.org/cgi-bin/CGI2.pl?name1=value1&name2=value2
[download]

etc...

2) You can call the CGI script directly through the LWP method refered to in the previous post

3) You can call the CGI script within your own CGI using backticks or the do command. Since the CGI parameters are stored in the %ENV hash, the subprogram should inherit scoping. You have an additional worry about security...