Not sure why this node was deleted, it doesn't seem
off-topic, merely, how do you say, demanding?
HTTP::Daemon should be a good start. There's actually
two of them, one by Ralf S. Engelschall (of mod_rewrite
fame, and more), and the other by Gisle Aas (LWP), though
of course, I could be seeing double. | [reply] |
I agree with tadman why was this node deleted? In my opinion Perl is the ultimate 'glue' language and well suited for this task. Chromatic himself has written a fully featured web server (his jellybean app).
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In the book "Perl Cookbook", chapter 17 on Sockets would be
of great help to you in this project. You are going to need
either the 'IO::Socket' module (easier) or
the 'Socket' module (for more control).
Also, you need to figure out if you want this mini-server
to use forked processes, what protocol you are
going to use (e.g. TCP, UDP), and whether it will run
as a daemon. Good luck, there is more to
this than meets the eye. ;-) | [reply] |