The question confuses me, but here's an answer based on what I think you're asking in question #3.

The CGI module (and pretty much all CGI-capable programs) don't read HTML forms. Web clients send HTTP data that include a URI which may have a query string or form-data with various chunks for each parameter.

If the filehandle reads from an HTML file, it won't work at all. If it reads from a file that contains well-formatted form-data as a web browser would post to a web server, it will work better.

If you know all this and this isn't your question, could you explain further what you're trying to do, not how you're trying to do it? That'll make it easier to suggest other ways to accomplish the same thing.

In reply to Re: new CGI(FILEHANDLE) by chromatic
in thread new CGI(FILEHANDLE) by Anonymous Monk

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