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That is because you're making stuff up :)

As CGI (and Ovids CGI Course ) documents, no CGI functions print stuff, they just return values, you have to print stuff yourself

$ perl -MCGI -le " CGI->html(q/hello/) " $ perl -MCGI -le " print CGI->html(q/hello/) " <html>hello</html>