I'm debugging (someone else's) legacy cgi-bin code. I read gopalr's How to Debug the CGI Codes; it was helpful. Previously, I've debugged CGI just using Perl's native debugger. 

 % perl -dw my-cgi-project.pl

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But early on, this program makes system calls to determine the user's authority to view the page. This works when run via the browser, but loses when the program is run from the command line. (Presumably because the daemon running the program from the web interface has privileges that I don't.)

Is there any clever way that I can run the single-stepper debugger from within a browser?

In reply to Single step debugging a CGI in a browswer by throop

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