Out of curiosity, since you aren't running a web server and all of this is local, why is there a requirement to display this in Firefox in the first place?

If the base requirement is to have a GUI, then there are lots of ways to do that which do not involve the browser at all! I've made some pretty fancy GUI's with Tk, but there are other options. I'm just wondering if we may all be pounding away at the wrong "solution"? If the real question is "hey, I want a GUI", then the discussion goes into a whole different direction and probably should be a new thread.

As another server option, one project that I'm working on (not done yet), is to get a Raspberry Pi 3 up and working with an Apache server for my "testing play box". I should be able to do this for less than $100 + brain sweat. This thing actually has enough horsepower to be a full Unix server the size of my palm.

Update: see XY Problem

In reply to Re^3: Execute a Perl script in a browser by Marshall
in thread Execute a Perl script in a browser by federico-perlmonks

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