Just a little comment.
i'd be careful using CGI, this module is a real good hack, but BIG (using 3,5 mb of your memory when compiled).
Next, i don't really like the idea of using the html stuff CGI offers, i like my perl code to be perl, not html. You might Have a look at HTML::Template, or try the Tal implementation for perl: Petal.
I don't want to create a flame about CGI versus other methods (like Apache::Request), but i'd like to inform about the possibilities, since CGI might not be the best solution for some problems.

hmm updated since last comment:
I'd use either the module HTML::Template or Pental (the Plone template system) to conform more to the Model-View-Controller patterns, and use templates and these modules to generate the html-content in stead of CGI

Next i'd use the Apache::Request implementation to read any requests, it has the same interface as CGI, but is light and fast in use.
More information can be found on http://www.cpan.org and www.plone.org.

In reply to Re^2: Use Strict & subs by jbrugger
in thread Use Strict & subs by Mayhem50

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