I've created a "multi-form" .cgi script written in Perl (Program A). By "multi-form", I mean it repeatedly accepts user input and submits it to itself. To illustrate, Program A creates Form A; Form A's input gets processed by Program A; Program A creates Form B; Form B's input also gets processed by Program A; Program A now creates Form C, etc. etc. etc.

The program is processing user input in unexpected ways. So I fire up the program from the command line with the debugger running. I enter input for Form A from the command line. The problem is, after I enter this input, both the debugger and Program A execution halts. So I never get an opportunity to enter data for Form B and continue on with my troubleshooting.

I tried fiddling with the debugger's 'inhibit_exit' option but this didn't do any good. Can someone point me in the right direction? How do you debug multi-form .cgi scripts?

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