How about starting a layer higher and building your webserver ontop of the HTTP::Daemon module? 
  use HTTP::Daemon;
  use HTTP::Status;


  $d = new HTTP::Daemon;
  print "Please contact me at: <URL:", $d->url, ">\n";
  while ($c = $d->accept) {
      $r = $c->get_request;
      if ($r) {
          if ($r->method eq 'GET' and $r->url->path eq "/xyzzy") {
              # this is *not* recommened practice
              $c->send_file_response("/etc/passwd");
          } else {
              $c->send_error(RC_FORBIDDEN)
          }
      }
      $c = undef;  # close connection
  }

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In reply to Re: How do I write a simple webserver by lhoward
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