lol, ok. When the request method is post or get I would expect to see a list of value pairs much like what you have in your reply. This is what would normally happen, and was happening previously.

Now the output from mode code snippet is 

$var1  
       {
          'sd*%^$T$Y$^U  56y$%65 5645' => 'r455&^ 57%^& 547 7765 GFGFH
+J&*4#$$^%^*&^ &^*%^ &* &* ASEqw ^&*&^ ^GHSRF&I*&^H %^%$% .....

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etc. The sort of thing that you get when you read a binary file in a text editor. Note: I just typed the above garbage as I am no longer at work, and don't have the file here.
Thanks, Gerard.

And Thanks for making me laugh, I've had a long day.

In reply to Re: Re: cgi->vars() unexpected results by Gerard
in thread cgi->vars() unexpected results by Gerard

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