it's really quite simple (as far a I can see). Making a webserver in perl is _extremely_ simple.

So just put a few minimal perl distributions on the disk (one per platform you want to support) and put a script similar to the following (adopted from HTTP::Daemon pod):

  use HTTP::Daemon;
  use HTTP::Status;

  my $d = new HTTP::Daemon LocalPort => 9999;
  print "CDRom webserver running on: ", $d->url, "\n";
  while (my $c = $d->accept) {
      while (my $r = $c->get_request) {
          if ($r->method eq 'GET') {
              # here you do the stuff
              # ...
          } else {
              $c->send_error(RC_FORBIDDEN)
          }
      }
      $c->close;
      undef($c);
  }
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then you make a few ways to start the server (autorun on win32, ...) and you are up and away.

think perl for perl is the most elevated

your humble brother

/dh