Or maybe not. With CGI::Pretty instead of CGI, performance of the server was drastically reduced. With CGI, stating a directory of 1440 items takes ~3s to display in a browser, minimal impact on the server, but simply changing to CGI::Pretty caused the process to exhaust all resources on the server stating the same directory.

Can someone educate me on why this might be?

Also, if the script exists in /perl and has a .pl extension, some Mozilla based browsers display the HTML code, but not the page (only for the cached pages) while all other browsers are fine, including other versions of Mozilla. If the script has a .cgi or no extension, all is well. I'm not quite sure what to make of that.

-JPJ

Changing  use CGI qw/:standard *table start_ul/; to  use CGI::Pretty qw/:standard *table start_ul/; seems to have fixed that issue on Mozilla 1.1, without adversely affecting other browsers.

{sigh}

-JPJ