Well after a discussion in the chatterbox about customising themes by CSS. I'm not sure exactly who but someone raised the idea of creating a proxy to simply insert a css tag, so I figured why not give it a go, I might even learn something (I did). (Though, its not like there is anything much to this)

The following is the result, it has:

• No Error Control:
• No Cookie Support
• No POST Support
• But... It does the job I wrote it for

I dont know if I will do any more to it or not, depends on how much I can come to liking my own CSS themes. Feel free to run off and improove it beyond what I could possibly do in a decade :)

To run: Just stick the script and your "style.css" file somewhere together, exec it, and you're off and proxying from port 82.

- nashdj

use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTTP::Daemon;
use HTTP::Status;

open(CSS,"style.css") || die "CSS Error: $!";
my $css = join("",<CSS>);
close(CSS);

&serve; #well it was going to be bigger than this originally you see
    
sub serve
{
  my $d=HTTP::Daemon->new(LocalAddr=>'localhost',
                          LocalPort=>'82',
                          Reuse => '1') || die "Cant Spawn: $!";

  my $c;
  while(1) 
  {
    $c =$d->accept;
    my $r = $c->get_request();
    my $url = $r->uri->as_string;
    my $content;
    
    if ($url !~ /style.css$/i)
    {
      $url =~ s|^(http://).+?/(.*)$|$1www.perlmonks.org/$2|i;
      $content = get $url;
      $content =~ s|<BODY|<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="/
+style.css">\n<BODY|i;
    }
    else
    {
      $content = $css;
    }
    
    my $response = HTTP::Response->new();
    $response->content($content);
    
    $c->send_response($response);
    $c->close;
  }
}
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