#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use URI::Escape;

chdir '/tmp'; # if possible

my $name = (split '/', $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} || $0)[-1];

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

uri_unescape($ENV{QUERY_STRING} || 'perldoc') =~ /^([\w\s:-]*)$/
  or do {
      print "bad query string: $ENV{QUERY_STRING}";
      exit;
  };

open DOC, "perldoc -u $1|pod2html --header --title='$1'|"
  or do {
      print "can't run perldoc: $!";
      exit;
  };

while (<DOC>) {
    s{ href="/([^."]+)\.html }
     { local $_ = $1;
        s|/|::|g;
        qq(href="$name?$_)
    }gexi;
    print;
}

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UPDATE: thanks to tachyon for suggestions
I've chosen deafult argument 'perldoc' instead of error reporting on empty query,
2>/dev/null added,
relative_path used instead of hardcoded 'perldoc.cgi'
fork eliminated

In reply to perldoc.cgi by ccn

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