Hello Wise, Venerable Monks,

I come again seeking out your wisdom on all things perl. I am using a webserver as a front end for my perl applications and need to make sure that it is secure. I only want it to accept connections locally and ignore all outside requests. Below I only define the local requests but I'm unsure if this is enough to prevent outside connections.

Unfortunately I only have one pc on this network also to test. Any information from someone with more experience working with HTTP::Daemon would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 
use HTTP::Daemon;
use HTTP::Status;
require 'C:\\rrships\\default.cgi';

  my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new(Listen    => 5,
                                 LocalAddr => 'localhost',
                                 LocalPort => 80,
                                 Proto     => 'tcp') or die "Can't bin
+d : $@\n";
  # print "Please contact me at: <URL:", $d->url, ">\n";
  while (my $c = $d->accept) {
      while (my $r = $c->get_request) {
          # print $r->url->path . "\n";
          if ($r->method eq 'GET') {
              my $response = HTTP::Response->new(200);
              $response->content(&Hello_World($r->url->path, $r->url->
+query));
              $response->header("Content-Type" => "text/html");
              $c->send_response($response);
          }
          else {
              $c->send_error(RC_FORBIDDEN)
          }
      }
      $c->close;
      undef($c);
  }

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In reply to HTTP::Daemon Security Question by bkiahg

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