That does look interesting and I'm confident (although if you could give clarification) that the hooks using mod_perl2 would get around the timeout problem with uploading hyoooge files.

I'm currently still playing in CGI script-land, since mod_perl, not even mentioning mod_perl2 is not a environment that's in the mainstream, as far as shared hosting accounts go (which is what I usually attempt to target, le sigh). Although making a really really mature CGI app dually work as a mod_perl/cgi script is something I'll eventually try to tackle.

Thanks for the tip, though;