Assuming you don't have a lot of experience with the CGI module and you're having trouble getting the page to display, I'll just add that a common cause for troubles is the content type set incorrectly. You need to call the header() function to set this. Also, you don't say what OS you use, but since the *nix way is covered above I thought I'd throw in the Windoze equivalent. 

  #! C:/Perl -w
  # too late to run Taint on Win32. See node link at bottom
  use strict;
  use CGI qw/:standard/; #for form based applications, you'll need mos
+t of the functions
                         #and it's a bit less typing over the function
+ oriented way. 
                         #See CGI.pm docs for more on that.
     if (param('submit')){
       print header,
         start_html('Thanks for your request'),
         h2("Submission accepted"),
         h4("Thank you"),
         end_html;
     } else {
        # do whatever needs doing
        # most likely you'll be building your form
     }

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In reply to Re: Re: CGI and Submit by earthboundmisfit
in thread CGI and Submit by muzakfetch

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