Instead of loading an entirely new web page (header | middle | footer) with the output, I am wondering whether it is possible to include the output to the same webpage that is already open. Perhaps with SSI -- where there is a header | middle | footer, the output could go into the middle section? 

<!--#include file="header.include.shtml" -->

<hr COLOR="#CCCCCC" size=1 NOSHADE>

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/test.cgi"-->

<!--#include file="footer.include.shtml" -->

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

my $dir = '/home/lawlist/www';

my $query = new CGI;

my $name = $query->param('name');

my $file = $dir . "/" . $name;

if ($name) {
  open(FILE,'/home/lawlist/www/header.include.shtml') and print <FILE>
+;
  close FILE; }


opendir(DIR, $dir) or die $!;

while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) {

  next unless (-f "$dir/$file");

  next unless ($file =~ m/\.txt|.el$/);

  print '<a href="/cgi-bin/test.cgi?name=' . $file . '">' . $file . "<
+/a>" . "<br>" . "\n\n"; }

closedir(DIR);

if ($name) {

  open (DATA, $file) or return $self->print_json_error($self->language
+('ERR_CANNOT_OPEN', $file->{name}, $!));

  read (DATA, my $file, -s DATA);

  close DATA;

  print "<br>\n\n<br>\n\n";

  print '<pre class="brush:  lisp">' . "\n\n" . $file . "\n" . '</pre>
+';

  print "\n\n<br>\n";

  open(FILE,'/home/lawlist/www/footer.include.shtml') and print <FILE>
+;

  close FILE; }

exit 0;

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