I've just recently come across what appears to me to be a bug with CGI::Simple. It comes up as missing form data. I've narrowed it down to the following small case. The first form submission works as expected, but any further submissions come up blank. 

C:\Perl\site\lib> more MyPackage.pm
package MyPackage;

use strict;
use CGI::Simple;
require Exporter;

use vars qw/@ISA @EXPORT $CGI/;
@ISA = qw/Exporter/;
@EXPORT = qw/init $CGI/;

sub init {
   $CGI = CGI::Simple->new;
}

1;


C:\Apache2\www> more index.pl
#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use MyPackage;

init();

print $CGI->header, '<html><body>';
print $CGI->param('text') if defined($CGI->param('text'));

print <<'END_HTML';
<form action="index.pl" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<textarea name="text" rows="10" cols="70"></textarea>
<input type='submit' />
</form>
</body>
</html>
END_HTML

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I also believe that this is an issue with CGI::Simple because if you replace the use of CGI::Simple with CGI, it works perfectly fine. My CGI.pm realizes it is running under mod_perl 2 ($CGI::MOD_PERL == 2), and I have commented out the necessary lines within CGI/Simple.pm for mod_perl compatibility. Any insights as to what CGI::Simple is doing wrong? Or is it just me?

In reply to CGI vs. CGI::Simple under mod_perl by Anonymous Monk

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