In fact I was doing the same peice of coding a while ago and came up with something similarly simple and elegant. Well without delay here it is. It captures the referrer and logs it.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI qw(param standard);
use strict;

my $query = new CGI;
my $referrer = $query->param("ref");
my $location = $query->param("place");
print $query->header;

if ($referrer){
    $referrer =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
    open(REF, ">>referrer.txt") or default('Cant open/write, $!');
    print REF "$referrer\n";
    close(REF);
}elsif ($ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}) {
    open(REF1, ">>referrer.txt") or default('Cant open/write, $!');
    print REF1 "$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}\n";
    close(REF1);
}

if (!$location){
    &main
}elsif (lc($location) eq "misc"){
    &misc
}elsif (lc($location) eq "links"){
    &links
}else{
    default('Where are you trying to go?');
}

sub links{
    print "links\n";
}

sub misc{
    print "misc\n";
}

sub default{
    print "Theres an error: @_";
}

sub main{
    print "this is sub main!";
}

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Wanna be perl hacker.
Dave AKA damian

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