How does one get the results of calling freeze to print properly to a web page? Properly in this case would mean that I could stick the data in a hidden field in a form. Then submit the serialized object back to the web server and thaw it out.

I believe this is really a question of printing 'strange' characters to the web browser since I can write $foo to a file. Also, I can tell the print is writing the entire object due to the amount of time it takes for the page to load...strange.

use Storable qw(nstore store_fd nstore_fd freeze thaw dclone);

$obj = Really::Big::thingy->new();
$foo = freeze $obj;
print $foo # I want to print this to the browser;

In reply to Writing frozen objects to a browser? by kenpo

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