HTTP being a stateless protocol, this behaviour is to be expected. Each invocation of the form to process another phase of your form is completely separate from the previous one.

To get round that, your script must be doing something to maintain state between invocations. This can be achieved in one of a number of ways - you might use cookies or some kind of session info in the PATH_INFO or it might be as simple as using hidden fields on the second (and subsequent) forms. You need to work out how you're doing that and simulate it in your other debugging sessions. If you're using hidden fields then it's easy enough to just send extra CGI parameters to the scripts.

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