Thank you atcroft, haj and anon for the useful clues. Sorry I forgot there is an error message, with diagnostics enabled, that's not ambiguous and agrees with your suggestions: 

Can't close(IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0x7fbc9ab6e300)) filehandle: 'Broken pipe'
I tried a few things that didn't help (like $SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE') but this eval on close does the trick: 

while (my $client = $server->accept) {
  ...
}
eval { close $client } # autodie in use
The Perl Cookbook says to use "shutdown" (0,1,2) instead of "close" but I get this: 

Can't shutdown('IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0x7fd3857a5e40)', '0'): Socket is not connected
What is the correct way to handle this condition (besides eval hack)?

Thanks again

In reply to Re: Double Click of Death on Perl Web Server by Anonymous Monk
in thread Double Click of Death on Perl Web Server by Anonymous Monk

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