For posterity: this worked beautifully, with one modification:
> This is what I will be doing to use Gimp in modperl:
>
> unless( fork()){
> Gimp::on_net(\&do_stuff);
CORE::exit main()
> }else{
> wait();
> find_the_generated_image();
> finish_responding_to_web_request();
> };
>
The only problem with the whole thing is that I have to write a file to
disk in order to pass the data to gimp. Nothing too terribly wrong with
that, but it does feel a little silly! :-)
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