in reply to Very new to PERL, want to see if CGI spawn concept is possible and or feasible without major pain

You need to read
Building a Large-scale E-commerce Site with Apache and mod_perl
and
Building E-Commerce Sites with Handel

For resources see Where and how to start learning Perl

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