Depends a lot on what you're using CGI.pm for. If you're simply grabbing name/value pairs, you could grab all of them with $cgi->Vars() and dump them into the database that way. Saving cookies shouldn't be too difficult. File uploads are perhaps a bit harder.

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
-- Schemer

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