At my place of employment, we put together a singular, large, HTML file that is later broken down by our server into multiple pages, by virtue of the <pagebreak></pagebreak> command.
Often, our documents will have 30 or more of those tags, which equates to a lot of pages. However, because of this unique setup, it’s a pain in the ass to test the various hyperlinks prior to the page going live, as they’re essentially non-functional until they’re online (since they’re linking to the pages designated by the “pagebreak” command, which isn’t active until the server physically breaks the pages up).
Are there any HTML programs that can read the <pagebreak> commands and display it as such so the hyperlinks work in a test environment?
Oh, crap. You guys are ancient. So why can’t you get your sysadmin folks to create an identical CGI script that outputs to a different file name? No, go, eh? Any chance you guys can move into the 21st century? Say PHP or ASP or something better than CGI?
At some point in this mix, someone has access to the web server. Surely there is a business need for what you ask so that the sys adsmin for the server should be able to assist you. If there is no business need to do what you ask, I wouldn’t sweat it.
Getting back to your OP, why can’t you install a web server on a local PC, complete with Perl and test there. Apache and IIS are both free.
Sounds like a clear case of needing to complain upstream, focusing on how making this change would increase your productivity a zillion percent. The higher upstream you can go, the better.