⭐ in reply to carrying a lot of vars from page to page with hidden()
I would use Apache::Session (which doesn't really need Apache) and pretty much follow the example in the docs. The constraint is that it'll be stuffed into a hash. But do what you wish to the hash... when the next process picks up the session you'll have your data back for that session id.
-Ducky
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