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For something similar (but not quite easily adapted to other cases, as the server used is too simple) take a look at Test::HTTP::LocalServer, which I use for end-to-end tests of WWW::Mechanize::Shell.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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