Please be kind if I am missing something simple, I have almost no experience in Perl.

I was frustrated by the lack of an address bar in my cell phone's mini-browser, so I decided to make a custom homepage on my site and to use a perl script to forward me to the input URL. Here's my form code:
<form action="http://site/cgi-bin/go.cgi" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="browse_url">
<input type="submit">
</form>

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And the backend code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use CGI;

my $redirect_url = param('browse_url'); 
#my $redirect_url = "http://google.com";  #(used for testing)

print "<html><head>";
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"10;url=$redirect_url\">"
+;
print "</head><body><a href=\"$redirect_url\">click</a></body></html>\
+n";

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My primary problem is that it runs fine on the command line eg. perl go.cgi but not through apache/mod_perl, it gives an internal server error. Any advice would be wonderful.

In reply to CGI error with simple script by rndmtxt

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