Okay, finally some progress to report, though I mostly feel increasingly ignorant in spite of the expert guidance. I can make it work by inserting the "QUERY_STRING" (without the leading "&" into the subroutine that appears below... In other words, the problem seems to be that there is nothing I can figure out that will get the parameter string into the QUERY_STRING part of the environment.

This mostly captures my past experiences with PERL... Enlightenment eludes me.

In particular, I cannot understand why the explicit command line assignment to QUERY_STRING fails. That is both the assignment in a PERL command line and the assignment with the shell set command. "These are not the ENV variables you are searching for..."

Right now I feel like rewriting the entire thing in Python. Is that sacrilegious, or just practical? 

sub html_parse
{
    local($line, $length, $offset, @pairs);

# Just use a GET and the one line?
     $line = $ENV{"QUERY_STRING"};

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In reply to Re^2: Running a CGI script from a command line? by shanen
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