I've been trying to write a basic contact form but the data isn't getting to the Perl variable I'm trying to use. All I get is an empty string. I'm fairly new to Perl and have been struggling with this for some time now - I don't understand why the code isn't working I tried several different examples I found on the web. It could be my html that's causing the problem? Or could it be the Perl is wrong? Here is the html for the form: 

<form method="post" action="scgi-bin/formhandler.pl" enctype="text/pla
+in">
                <p id="invite">Leave Us a Message</p>
                <div>
                    <label for="name">Name:</label>
                    <input type="text" id="name" />
                </div>
                <div>
                    <label for="mail">E-mail:</label>
                    <input type="email" id="mail" />
                </div>
                <div>
                    <label for="message">Message:</label>
                    <textarea id="message"></textarea>
                </div>
                <div class="button">
                    <button type="submit">Send Message</button>
                </div>
            </form>

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and the perl is: 
    read (STDIN, $in, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
    @in = split(/&/, $in);
    foreach $i (0 .. $#in)
    {
        $in[$i] =~ s/\*/ /g;
        $in[$i] =~ s/%(..)/pack("c", hex($1))/ge;
        ($key, $val) = split(/=/, $in[$i],2);
        $in{key} .= '\0' if (defined($in{$key}));
        $in{key} .= $val;
    }

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I checked and $in is getting no data, it's just an empty string - why? Utterly confused!

In reply to Not getting form data from stdin by trewornan

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