Hi there! I have a cgi script that is supposed to send data collected via a iOS app to a server and output as a csv file. I have input the cgi script in my server, linked it in my code for my app for data collection. However when I go to "collect" the data via servername/script.cgi/nameoffile.csv it does nothing. I can't tell if it's an issue on the server side or my code. Any insight? 

 #!/usr/bin/perl -ws                                                  
+                     
use CGI;

my $query = CGI->new;
my $id = $query->param( 'participant_id' );

print $query->header;
print "You are participant $id!";

# Create outfile for saving data!
my $filename = "participant_".$id."_data.csv";
open( OUTFILE, ">>$filename") or die $!, "Couldn\'t open outfile for r
+eading!\n";

my @keys = $query->param();
print OUTFILE 'pause_time'."\t".$query->param('pause_time')."\n";
foreach my $key (@keys) {
    if (($key ne 'participant_id') && ($key ne 'pause_time')) {
        print OUTFILE $key."\t";
        print OUTFILE $query->param($key);
        print OUTFILE "\n";
    }
}
close( OUTFILE );

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