Edited by Corion: Changed title

I have an SysAdmin who is a real /\$$. He won't install ANY modules including Text::Template.

So, I developed the code below.

sub DisplayHTML() {
    $HTMLFileName = @_[0];
    open(HTMLFNH,"<$HTMLFileName") || die "Cant open $HTMLFileName";
    print "Content-type:  text/html\n\n";
    while ($HTMLLine=<HTMLFNH>) {
        $HTMLLine =~ s/(\$[\w\[\]{}']+)/$1/gee;
        #Allows printing of variable content.
        print "$HTMLLine";
    }
    close(HTMLFNH);
}
return 1;

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The problem is this: If you goto http://www.mscorp.org/cgi-bin/invo.pl you will see a page generated by this script. However, if you view the source of the page you will find the action tag for the form is blank. in the HTML document read my the script I have tried using $ENV'SCRIPT_URL'} variable to set the action tag. I have also setting a regular scalar and that doesn't work either.

Any ideas?

In reply to Getting a self-referencing script URL (was: Seeking wisdom again...) by akm2

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