[Drunken Perl Coder]

a simple example based on your simple example:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI qw/:standard/;
my $Test = param('Test') || undef;

print header,
      start_html('HTML form'),
qq~<FORM NAME="form1" METHOD="POST">
    <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Test" VALUE="" SIZE="18" MAXLENGTH="50"> <br>
    <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="submit" VALUE="Go!">
</FORM>

<FORM NAME="form2" METHOD="POST">
is: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="blah" VALUE="$Test" SIZE="16" MAXLENGTH="50">
</FORM>~,
end_html;

The script prints the forms instead of trying to use a static html page. This is much simpler than what you propose unless you switched to PHP.