Hi, I'm thinking of writing a long-running perl process that will be making http requests, and interacting with a database, and files on the local system. I'm interested in making it's current status available through a web-interface, but without having to run a seperate web server like Apache. Is there an easy (e.g. install module XXX::YYY) solution to this type of thing? The best I have so far is using HTTP::Daemon in a forked sub-process and some sort of shared-memory arrangement to keep the actual status info. The type of thing I'm looking for is like Amphetadesk, or NNTPCache's statistics page, if that's familiar to anyone.

In reply to Embedding a web-server in a long-running process? by howie

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