"We have a perl based web app"
then you need some sort of web server, i dont think there is a way around this, you could include your own light-weight sever in your exe, such as
HTTP::Daemon. But you wont get the performance to match up with apache.
An afterthought, an example of this is the server that powers squeezebox,
a perl based app that is easyly installed on windows by non-techy users,
the source is open & can be downloaded from
slimserver
update: added cpan link.
update2: added squeezebox example.
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