Hi: Script (faked identities) called from link works fine. 
  https://www.dumpledorf.us/httpsdocs/cgi-bin/update_tables.cgi?action
+=updatetable_433

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Also works fine called from website page. I want to call the scripts via FTP from a different program. Five variations of the subs called with this cgi updatetable_443, _444, _445, _446 and _447 First three call subs that delete all data from MySQL Tables and replace with uploaded txt file data. Other two download a dynamically created HTML table. All this works fine when called from website page and links I put in email to test. Question: Can you call(execute) a cgi-script with an FTP command of some sort. I have looked at many. None seem appropriate. I tried ftp.literal with different commands. No luck Alternatives appreciated. For the latter two I don't want to open a default browser loaded with the URL. I want to try all using FTP .htaccess AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl Options +ExecCGI Secondary question ( not remotely perl related), the ftp.put result for the (16k and 300k)txt files appear truncated on the server at 1440 and 2880 bytes. Sources are fine. ft = binary. Any hints there?

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