Re: input length, ref: http://perldoc.perl.org/CGI.html#Avoiding-Denial-of-Service-Attacks, which states such functionality is not enabled by default, the web-server can limit resources for CGI scripts.

Which data loss 'bug' are you referring to? This code has been running for years now with no data loss?

Parameter separator bug, I presume you are talking about the lack of '=' also setting the value to 1. This is a feature to cut the URI string down.

The URI input is parsed using a standard method and is UTF8 compatible; $v =~ s/%(0-9A-Fa-f{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg;

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