Yipes! I'm beginning to think I've done a really bad job of asking this question.

OK, forget everything I said before. What I really want to know is how to do this:

<form name="myform" action="not_a_cgi.pl" method="get">
<input name="checkme" type="checkbox"/></form>

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in other words, have a form's action execute a regular perl script instead of a CGI.

Addendum:

In hindsight, maybe it was referring to my little web page as a "control panel" that led to the confusion. In reality it's a page with an HTML table on it and a refresh button that redraws the table. So maybe "control panel" was overstating it! :)

And maybe "event handler" was the wrong term (obviously it was if it's something that would require a "monstrous amount" of code), but I just meant something like

<input name="checkme" type="checkbox" onclick="submitform();">

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I was just too lazy to type it the first time as I wasn't 100% sure on the syntax.

In any event, thank you for offering your suggestions.

In reply to Re^2: CGI "control panel" app by mojodaddy
in thread CGI "control panel" app by mojodaddy

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