use CGI qw/:standard/; read(STDIN, $formdata, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}); @pairs = split(/\&/, $formdata); foreach $pair (@pairs){ ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair); $value =~ tr/+/ /; $value =~ s/%0D%0A/\n/g; $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; $FORM{$name} = $value; }