Oh my - I feel honored to have your response! Here is a sample of a subroutine that calls the api.pm and is not coming back (the database name is a passed through as a "topic", and to reiterate, this works in the command line): 
 my $OpenTopic      = new Win32::API
("pmdbf32", "OpenTopic", [P, P], N);      
sub open {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $topic = shift || "-NA-";    # Topic Name provided?
    my ($lpTopic, $Topic, $return, $handle);

        # Already Open?
    return (-1) if $self->opened(@_);

        # If no topic is passed, but one was defined previously
        # then assign $topic that value
    $topic = $self->{TOPIC} if ($topic eq "-NA-") and (defined($self->
+{TOPIC}));

        # Return if empty Topic name
    return (-1) if ($topic eq "-NA-") and (! defined($self->{TOPIC}));

        # Allocate/Format the data
    $lpTopic = pack("L", 0);
    $Topic = pack("a16",$topic);

         #This is the line that is failing *****
    $return = $OpenTopic->Call($Topic, $lpTopic);

        # Opened Topic OK?
    if ($return == 0) {
        ($self->{HANDLE}) = unpack("L", $lpTopic);
        $self->{TOPIC} = $topic;
    } else {
        return (-1);
    }

    return $return;
}

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Does this provide any insight? Thank you so much!

In reply to Re^2: Calls to win32 hanging in cgi not in command line by cappabi
in thread Calls to win32 hanging in cgi not in command line by cappabi

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