in reply to CGI version 2.74 missing offline mode

You can switch the old behaviour back on by passing -debug to the use CGI statement.

use CGI qw(:standard -debug);

See the CGI,pm docs at
http://search.cpan.org/doc/LDS/CGI.pm-2.753/cgi_docs.html#debugging for details.

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