@parameters = split(/&/,$request);

CGI, which you're already using CGI, does that for you, and does it correctly, so you should actually use it :)

Please don't copy/paste that read(STDIN, $request,$ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); anymore

Read use CGI or die;, especially Ovids CGI Course, CGI Programming 101.

Read CGI Help Guide and Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts

Read this if you want to cut your development time in half!

While you're already doing all this reading, might as well read the CGI documentation and the examples, those that come with CGI, and some others, like Re: Help!! Premature ending of script headers?, Re^3: Trying to get an RSS to display.

Once you get past simple programs like this 

#!/usr/bin/perl  --
use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI ();
use Data::Dumper ();    #zum debuggen

Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );

sub Main {
    return DebugCGI();
}

sub DebugCGI {
    binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf8)";
    my $cgi = CGI->new;
    $cgi->charset('UTF-8');
# Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
# <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /
+>
    $cgi->cookie; # "fetch" cookies
    print $cgi->header();    # Write HTTP header
    print $cgi->start_html,
      $cgi->b( rand time, ' ', scalar gmtime ),
      '<table border="1" width="%100">',
      '<tr><td>',
      $cgi->Dump,
      '</td>',
      '<td><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; overflow: scroll;">',
      $cgi->escapeHTML( DD($cgi) ),
      '</div></td></tr>',
      '<tr><td>',
      $cgi->escapeHTML( 'CGI::Cookie->fetch' ),
      '</td>',
      '<td><div style="white-space: pre-wrap; overflow: scroll;">',
      $cgi->escapeHTML( DD( { CGI::Cookie->fetch } ) ),
      '</div></td></tr>',
      '</table>',
      '<h1>And now %ENV</h1>',
      CGI->new( \%ENV )->Dump,
      $cgi->end_html;
}

sub DD { scalar Data::Dumper->new( \@_ )->Indent(1)->Useqq(1)->Dump; }
__END__

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CGI::Application/http://cgi-app.org/ can help you organize your program , as could mojo / dancer / catalyst

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in thread Cookie and Session by devarishi

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