> Are you recommending that maybe I not use this and instead hard code the form statment?

The forms that I was using weren't multipart/form-data - they were just plain old 'method="POST"' types - but as I recall, the data kept ending up being passed as GET rather than POST no matter what I did in 'start_form()'. I noticed that the default method used by CGI.pm was GET, decided to flip it to POST just so I could experiment a bit... and suddenly (and unexpectedly), everything worked fine. Again, this was for just that one server type ('thttpd', maybe? I really don't remember) - all the others worked fine both before and after the change.

As I'd mentioned, I'm not a fan of "magical" solutions where I don't understand the mechanism - hate'em, in fact, since they don't teach me how to solve that class of problems, only that one problem (and even that's a "maybe") - but A) it worked for me, and B) maybe someone here will have better insight/knowledge about the "why" of it.

> what does $|++ do?

From perlvar: 

    $|      If set to nonzero, forces a flush right away and after eve
+ry
            write or print on the currently selected output channel.

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I generally turn buffering off whenever I have Perl talking to an external program - e.g., a web server or a database client, or any kind of a pipe. It prevents a host of related timing problems. 


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In reply to Re^3: IIS 6 x64 CGI variable problem by oko1
in thread IIS 6 x64 CGI variable problem by karlk123

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