Here is the main program I'm working with right now... It's incomplete but shows the backbone minus the irrelevant business content...

use strict;
use HTTP::Daemon;
use HTTP::Response;
use HTTP::Status;
use BusinessLogic;
use threads; 

my %opt = ();

getopt('sx', \%opt);    # -i, input file name [-t template name], valu
+es in %opts.

unless (defined $opt{s} ) {
    print STDOUT "\nUsage: ./orgserver -s datasourcename [-x xmloutput
+flatfile]\n\n";
    exit 0;
}

unless (-r $opt{s}) {print "Unable to read $opt{s}"}
if ($opt{x}) {unless (-w $opt{x}) {print "Unable to write to $opt{w}"}
+;exit 0}
$| = 1;

my $xmlfile = "OrgTree.xml";
my $xmlflatfile = $opt{'x'} || "FlatOrgFile.xml";
my $sourcefile = $opt{'s'} || 'data/infile-big.txt';
my $E = BusinessLogic->new({
    sourcefile=>$sourcefile,
    xmlfile=>$xmlfile,
    xmlflatfile=>$xmlflatfile
    });

$E->writeLog(99,"new Model tree and Daemon created");
#create the HTTP::Daemon instance
my $d = new HTTP::Daemon LocalAddr => 
  $E->{server}->{hostname}, LocalPort=>$E->{server}->{url};
$| = 1;
#should be familiar... many parts based on webserver in 100 lines by C
+orion http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=116767 (from what I r
+emember)
print "Please contact me at: <URL: ", $d->url, " >\n";
for (;;) {
    $DB::single = 2;
    my $connect = $d->accept; 
    print "We got a request '$connect'!\n";
    my $thread = threads->new(\&connection,$connect,$E); 
    $thread->detach;
    print "have detached from this connection\n";
}

sub connection {
    my $c = shift;
    my $E = shift;
    print 
          "We are starting a new connection 
           thread with connection '$c'\n";
    print "listening for request\n";
    while (my $r = $c->get_request) {
        print "We got a request\n";
                #ignore all but GET requests
        if ($r->method eq 'GET') {
            $E->{method} = $r->method;
            $E->regen();
            $E->writeLog(99,"\n\n\n--------n\n\n");
            $E->writeLog(8,"Incoming GET Request Content",$E->{request
+});
            my $path = $r->url->path;
            print "We are handling path request $path\n";
            my $command = $E->securePath($path);
                        #handle the command passed to us in the GET an
+d generates the output headers and body            my $ref = $E->run(
+) || 
                           $E->writeLog(99,"Error processing $command!
+",$!);
            $E->writeLog(8,'business logic finished');
            
            my $response = 
                           new HTTP::Response( 404,undef,undef,"404 - 
+Not found." );

            foreach my $key ( keys %{$E->{response}->{header}} ) {
                $response->header( 
                                  $key=>$E->{response}->{header}->{$ke
+y} 
                                )
            }

            $response->content($E->{response}->{content});
            $response->code($E->{response}->{code});
            $c->send_response($response);

        } else { 
            # go away!
            $c->send_error(RC_FORBIDDEN);
        }

        $E->regen();

    }
    print "Closing connection '$c'";    
    $c->close;
    undef($c);
}
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