Hi, I'm using IIS server and following code. I want to get value of textbox and checkboxes in perl file. But I'm getting null every time though text box have some value. Please please please someone through some light on the issue. my sample code is as below: a.html: 
<html><head></head>
<body>
<form name='form' action = 'a.pl' method = 'get'>
<input type="text" name="name" size="8" value="zzzz"> 
<input type = 'submit' value = 'SUBMIT'>
</form></body></html>

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a.pl: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);
my $name = undef;
$name = param("name");
print "value = ",$name, "\n";

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Please help. Thanks in advance.

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