Yes, it's possible. It's a small matter of programming. But until you tell us what the "no luck" part is, it's hard to help you any further.

By CGI, I presume you mean "forks a separate process to run a separate (possibly non-perl) program, passing the right things on standard in and in the environment, and looking for certain responses on standard out and for the exit status". That's what CGI is. Do you mean that differently?

But, if you're doing that, you might as well use a standard webserver, which will certainly be much more efficient than an HTTP::Daemon-created Perlserver. The advantage to the Perlserver is that it doesn't need to fork for CGI!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: CGI web server in Perl by merlyn
in thread CGI web server in Perl by HTTP-404

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