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We simply run the script, with a proper input piped in, at the command line. The error messages we see point us right to the problems, which we can then fix either in the code or in file and directory permissions. Not trivial, but certainly not prohibitively difficult. But now consider the webmaster not allowed physical, terminal or telnet access to the server. The CGI program can be run only from the browser.