How do I receive and respond to Ajax requests in Perl?

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Published on 2010-04-06T19:40:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 18:03 UTC
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I have a client-side appliction which submits some data via AJAX POST request (request.open("POST", url, flag)) to my Perl CGI script.

How do I retrieve this data with Perl and return some other data (AJAX response)?

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