CGI.pm has been distributed with perl since about 5.6.1 I believe, so it may be installed in your system already. My CGI.pm is a little rusty, but try: 
    use CGI qw/:standard/ ;
    print header() ;
    print start_html() 
    print "Hello World" 
    print end_html() ;

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as a CGI script and see if it works. You'll get an "Internal Server Error", and an entry in the error log saying something to the effect of "could not locate CGI.pm" if CGI.pm is not there.

In reply to Re: Using CGI.pm by ptkdb
in thread Using CGI.pm by Deanimal

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