Hi monks, I'm learning perl, as this question will aptly demonstrate! I'm trying to make a cgi form that will present a text box to be filled in with text, then once posted, it will display the output of that post on either the same, or a new page (all on the same cgi url). Is this possible or do I need a seperate html page to post from then a cgi to process it? If some one could just point me to an example (yep, already tried google, but it doesn't like the way I'm asking it questions today) Input form view: 
  print "Content-type: text/html
    <body>
      <form action="/cgi-bin/posttest.cgi"
      method="POST">
      <textarea name="content" cols=40 rows=4>Enter data here.
      </textarea>
      <input type="submit" value="Process">
      </form>

    </body>
  </html>

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Output: 
print "Content-type: text/html
<body>
print "you posted $string";
...

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In reply to simple form post question by Anonymous Monk

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