Hey monks,
I'm rather new to perl and I had the idea of making a simple forking http daemon to help me gain some experience.
Well...I'm having trouble with it, basically what happens is I start it up and I can request and recieve one page and then the daemon just dies.

I'll post the entire source as its not that big anyway.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use IO::Socket;

$SIG{CHLD} = \&WAIT;

# Declare Globals
my $crlf = "\015\012";
my $childpid;
my $socket;
my $method;
my $client;
my $oldfh;
my $httpv;
my $file;
my $uri;

# Create Socket
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Type    => SOCK_STREAM,
                      LocalPort => 8080,
                      Listen    => 10,
                      Reuse    => 1);

die "Failed to start httpd: $!\n" unless $socket;

while ($client = $socket->accept) {
# Fork a child for each client request
$childpid = fork;
die "Failed to fork: $!\n" unless defined($childpid);
    # If child deal with client
    if ($childpid == 0) {
        while (<$client>) {

        # Split inital http headers
        ($method, $uri, $httpv) = split if (/\// && m/HTTP\/1\.(0|1)/)
+;
        
        # exit if we receive a blank line and the headers are false
        exit if (/^($crlf|\n)$/ && not($method || $uri || $httpv));
        
        # Send client a 501 if the client uses any of these http metho
+ds
        if ($method =~ /POST|HEAD|PUT|DELETE|TRACE|CONNECT/) {
          print $client 'HTTP/1.0 501 Not Implemented' . $crlf x 2;
        exit;
        }
        
        # If no file is given assume index.html was requested
        if ($uri eq '/') {
        $file = 'index.html';
        } else {
        $file = substr($uri, 1);
        }
        
        # If we receive a blank line then its the end of the request
        # so go onto sending a reply/file
        if (/^($crlf|\n)$/) {
            # If file exists go onto see if its readable
            if (-e $file) {
                # If file is readable go onto sending the file
                if (-r $file) {
                  print $client 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK', $crlf;
                  print $client 'Content-Type: text/html' . $crlf x 2;
                  open(FILE, $file) || die "Failed to open file: $!\n"
+;
    
                # Make FILE hot
                $oldfh = select FILE;
                $|++;
                select($oldfh);

                    # Print to client
                    while (<FILE>) {
                    print $client $_;
                    }

                close(FILE);
                exit;
                # Else if file is not readable send 403
                } else {
                print $client 'HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden' . $crlf x 2;
                exit;
                }
            # Else if file does not exist send 404
            } else {
            print $client 'HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found' . $crlf x 2;
            exit;
            }
          }
}
}
# If parent close client and go back
# to the first while loop
close($client);
next;
}

sub WAIT {
wait;
}
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I would be very, very grateful if anybody could help me.
Many Thanks,
Matt

PS/ I know this httpd has some security flaws (directory traversal etc.) but I do not intend on running it commercially.