While HTTP::Daemon may be easy to use, it is not advisable practice. For one, if you need to write a script to run on YourAverageHost.Com, it will invariably be a CGI script. Even when that is untrue and the script in question is going to run on your own machine, running a HTTP daemon for every single script you may or may not need at one time or other is simply an unnecessary waste of resources (memory, CPU, socket handles) and presents a box with a million open ports to anyone who happens to scan you. And without meaning to be condescending to her, if danielle is asking such a question I doubt she has the experience to have a grasp of all of the security concerns that play a role in writing a daemon (although admittedly CGI is only marginally friendlier an environment).

In specific scenarios, HTTP::Daemon may be the tool to use. For the common tasks, it's not. Use the right tool for the right job..

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^3: browser not executing perl by Aristotle
in thread browser not executing perl by danielle

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