I don't think it's secure in the way you think. Just because you use localhost as the server address, dosn't mean it won't accept connections from the internet.

You can add some more safety though. I havn't tested this, but the perldoc says that "The "HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn" is a "IO::Socket::INET" subclass.". So you should be able to use IO::Socket::INET's peeraddr to get the address of the client 

my $peeraddress = $c->peeraddr();
# check if they are in an allowed list

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In reply to Re: HTTP::Daemon Security Question by zentara
in thread HTTP::Daemon Security Question by bkiahg

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