The really galling thing is that Matt's scripts will continue to work find in this post-CGI world. The nms versions were written to the best practices of 2000 and therefore need CGI.pm.
Actually Matt's stuff DOESN'T use CGI.pm (at least what I'm familiar with). That was the thing - even when CGI.pm was the Better Practice, Matt didn't use it.
No one should use Matt's stuff, unless you want huge security exploits.
No one should use Matt's stuff, unless you want huge security exploits.