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Your HTML code isn't valid. Please try the following: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use CGI ':standard';
use LWP::Simple qw/get/;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

 print "<HTML>\n";
 print "<HEAD>\n";
 print "<TITLE></TITLE>\n";
 print qq{<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://url.....:po
+rt/cgi-bin/upgprocess.cgi">};
 print "</HEAD>\n";
 print "<BODY>\n";
 print "<b><CENTER><p>Server Status</p></CENTER></b>\n\n";
 print "<TABLE BORDER =0 align=center>\n";
 print "</BODY>\n";
 print "</HTML>\n";

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