Nothing wrong with your requirements, and nothing that is incompatible with "run your own web service."
  1. Copy perl scripts and data files to this location, and make a link on the desktop that launches the main perl script. The main script can adjust @INC to use its own private stash of modules.
  2. A perl script can bring up the user's IE with a simple statement: system("start/b  http://localhost:2345/").
  3. If your web service only accepts connections originating from localhost, it's not going to open up problems on the LAN or internet.
  4. I haven't suggested you exploit any vulnerability to implement this.

It would be harder to decide when to stop, since the user's free to wander off and browse other pages, or close the IE session.

Update: Look into HTTP::Daemon for a start, but that's only one option. I'm sure there's others.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Browsers as stand-alone UI by halley
in thread Browsers as stand-alone UI by dragonchild

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