[MacPerl] Trouble with CGI

[Christopher Swope <s6613535@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us>]

I am new to perl, and very, very, new to CGI.  I learned Perl with 
the intent of using it for CGI.

Before I actually got started in my CGI self-education, I thought 
that I would look at some other CGI scripts.  I downloaded some, and 
tried to run them from a form.

However, when I did this, I got repeated "Document contains no data" 
errors.  I am wondering what is causing this.

I suspect that it is due to the fact that I am not going through a 
web-server application, such as apache, but rather am just invoking 
the script as one would test any old HTML file.  I went looking on 
this, and it seems as if one must go through such an application, for 
it is Apache or such itself that launches the application, and then 
returns the data.

I am wandering if I am right, or am just thinking too hard, and 
really the problem is something much simpler.

If I am indeed right, then I would like to know how one reccomends 
testing a CGI script from MacPerl, without going through the server. 
Also, once I have it loaded in the cgi-bin of a server application 
directory, do I have to log in to my own domain, or can I just do an 
open-->file-->(whatever the form name would be) option.

Thank you for your help.

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