I was following the tutorial http://www.cgi101.com/book/ch4/text.html and copied the exact code of post.cgi. I place bot html & corresponding CGI code in /var/www/html directory and then visited the page through URL.When I used to press Submitt button the control transferred to the cgi page where I used to get the content of the CGI script as it like this :

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#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use CGI qw(:standard); use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser); use strict; print header; print start_html("Thank You"); print h2("Thank You"); my %form; foreach my $p (param()) { $form{$p} = param($p); print "$p = $form{$p}<br>\n"; } print end_html;
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But the desired output is

Thank You Siddhesh

name = siddhesh

email = sid123@gmail.com

comments = hello !!!!

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Why is it so???


In reply to Question on CGI-PERL by siddheshsawant

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