This is more an HTML than a PERL problem but I spent 1/2 of today with google trying to find the answer. Then I experimented and this technique worked.

The important thing was adding

target = "_blank"

to the form action line.

This worked on my Ubuntu linux setup with localhost.

The desired result. When you click on the Submit Button the response is displayed in a new browser window.

The Submit Web Page:

<html>
<body>
<form method="post" action="cgi/show_response.cgi" target="_blank">

<input type="submit" name ="submit_button_one" value="Submit Button On
+e"><br>
<input type="submit" name ="submit_button_two" value="Submit Button Tw
+o" /><br />
<input type="submit" name ="submit_button_three" value="Submit Button 
+Three" /><br />
<input type="submit" name ="submit_button_four" value="Submit Button F
+our" /><br />
</form>
</body>
</html>

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The cgi response:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
use strict;
use warnings;
use English;
my @scriptpath=split(/\//,$0);
my $scriptname = pop @scriptpath;
my $q = new CGI;
print $q -> header(-target=>"NewPage");
print $q -> start_html("$0");#page title
print h2("Run from  $0");
print "<br>\n";
my %form =(); my %key; my $value;

foreach my $p (param()) {
      $form{$p} = param($p);
      print "\$p is $p: \$form{\$p} is:  $form{$p}<br>\n";
}
print $q ->end_html;

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In reply to open a new web page from a cgi form by bdalzell

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