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Mine's only 44kb, so I guess I missed a few widgets - or maybe I don't comment enough. I found alot of it was boring 'cross the eyes' work, I guess that's why I stopped.

For me the word 'easy' has connotations of 'straightforwards'. There wasn't much tricky or innovative in my code.

Still, I think most of what is offered here is easily reachable by the average Perl programmer using HTTP::Daemon and a bit of fingerwork.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Stunnix Perl Web Server - a platform for portable browser-based applications
by Anonymous Monk on May 22, 2004 at 19:49 UTC
    Ours doesn't have any dependencies on non-standard modules. But if you'll follow HTTP::Daemon path, the total size of modules required from libwww will be much more than 200kb. Yes, it's not a rocket-science, but a lot of efforts are needed to support non-blocked unbuffered IO and supporting simultaneous http requests to dynamic content on all platforms.
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      Say, purely from a "if I were to do this", isn't that just the sort of thing POE would be good for? I mean, I wrote a TCP socket server (for streaming chatterbox) in just a few lines.
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        In my code, the network handling routines were pretty small. And I used shared hashes for passing paramters and data (but I could serialise them so an application's state would persist across restarts of the server - oh for first-class closures).

        POE would work as well as any other server daemon. It's a matter of what you're comfortable with.

        Having played with writing a fair bit of GUI stuff, I've found that most of the work is in stupid, boring bookeeping - implementing Widget::Button, Widget::RadioButton, Widget::CheckButton, etc.

        Even with OO and using inheritence and eval tricks, it's still repetitive.

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        POE is bad for several reasons:
        • It's huge and requires too many additional modules.
        • It doesn't work on perl-5.004.
        • It's rather slow. Ours transfers static pages 2 times faster.
        • It doesn't have framework for handling several http requests to dynamic content simultaneously (entire slave/master framework would have to be written to support it).
        In fact, implementing functionality we would need from POE (effectively - nice wrapper for select(2) with callbacks) is about 6% of all code size of SPWS.
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