Spitting out a webpage

Gorby has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Wise Monks!

I'd like to make a socket server using IO::Socket that returns a web document. I can create the server and make it respond to a socket client, but my problem is that when I use a web browser to access the socket server, the web browser refuses to display the text my server spits out. What headers exactly does my server need to syswrite to the socket in order for the web browser to recognize the page? For getting pages from a client I know it's GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n. What is it for returning a page?

Thanks in advance.

Gorby

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Re: Spitting out a webpage by Joost (Canon) on Sep 15, 2007 at 01:15 UTC
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945. * If you don't want to read all that, you're almost certainly better off using an existing webserver, either a pure-perl one, like HTTP::Daemon or something like apache * update: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html is more up to date. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: Spitting out a webpage by erroneousBollock (Curate) on Sep 15, 2007 at 04:27 UTC
Try using HTTP::Response to construct your HTTP responses. Even if you're just doing this as a learning exercise, you can read the source of HTTP::Response to get a better idea. -David	[reply]
Re: Spitting out a webpage by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 15, 2007 at 07:51 UTC
Did you read Re^4: Socket Server without forking? in one of your recent threads?	[reply]