Hee hee. When I first started writing CGI scripts in '97, it was a surprisingly long time before I learned how to actually log in to the *nix server and execute the script from the command line to see what the problem was. Later I learned to look through Apache's error log, and much later I learned to use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser). I'm rather embarrassed to think of how much unnecessary pain I inflicted on myself. I used to visibly flinch when I would see that dreaded "Internal Server Error" screen. :)