And the latest versions of CGI.pm requires you to import the '-debug' flag to turn that feature on:

use CGI qw(-debug);
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And I often just cut and paste a query string from the browser to a file so I can just do something like this from the command line (and have all the parameters saved so I can edit them at will):

my_cgi_script.cgi <query.in
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