When you say "it never makes it to the CGI intact" are you sure? Have you examined the contents of ENV directly (in the case of a GET request) or STDIN (in the case of a POST)? I suspect the data IS being transmitted to your CGI, it's just that your CGI is not handling the transmitted data correctly. The fact that you don't know how to use CGI.pm implies that you're using a hand-rolled method to extract your form information, and that way, dear brother, lies madness.

Why don't you post your CGI code and we'll see if that's where the problem is?

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer