in reply to Accessing CGI objects from within a 'require'-ed file?

Yes, it's permissions. Just one note for functions.pl: 
use strict;
our %GLOBAL;

sub outputTest
{
  print $GLOBAL{'test'};
}

sub outputPOST
{
  print $GLOBAL{'query'}->Vars;
}

1;

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use strict and declaring vars with our is good practice. Since %GLOBAL is declared with "our", both files share the same variable. That's what our is about. No need to fully qualify %GLOBAL with the package name.

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