Thank you very much for the response! :-)

I have a follow on question before I try what you sent. For the response code:
        if (-s $cache_path) {  # is it in the cache?

            # this would of course be the content read from the cache 
+file...
            my $content = "<html><body>...yadda yadda...</body></html>
+";

            # create response
            my $res = HTTP::Response->new(200);
            $res->content_type('text/html');
            $res->content($content);

            # send back (short-circuit normal content fetching)
            $self->proxy()->response($res);
        }

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I would like to know how I can assign the contents of an entire file to the HTTP::Reponse. The response will have the necessary header fields in it if I can just throw the entire file back to the client.
I might need to through my own response code, but that will be easy enough.
I would prefer not to have to read in all of the original headers and assign to each component of HTTP::Response, if I can avoid it.

Thanks in advance for your help.

In reply to Re^2: HTTP::Proxy filter for dishing out own files by r1n0
in thread HTTP::Proxy filter for dishing out own files by r1n0

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