basic tiny webserver. Actually it could use a good round of golf. Signal handlers can also be added to take care of HUP,INT and TERM to safely reset or kill the daemon. 
local $|=1;
use IO::Socket;

my $PORT = $ARGV[0] || 9000;                  # pick something not in 
+use
my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto      => 'tcp',
                LocalPort  => $PORT,
                Listen     => SOMAXCONN,
                LocalAddr  => 'localhost',
                Reuse      => 1);

unless ($server) {
        logit "can't setup server",0;
        exit 0;
}

while (my $client = $server->accept()) {
        $client->autoflush(1);

        my $request = <$client>;
        chomp $request;

        #do stuff with the request here, like:
        if ($request =~ m|^GET /(.*) HTTP/1.[01]|) {
            # some sort of processing, whatever you want
        } else {
                print $client "HTTP/1.0 400 BAD REQUEST\n";
                print $client "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n";
                print $client "BAD REQUEST ($request)\n";
        }
        close $client;
}

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In reply to Re: Creating a simple HTTPD in Perl by bageler
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