Hi all, I am running Perl 5.8.8 scripts on an Apache HTTP web server which is running on a linux machine.

I need to receive one HTTP Request, and respond with multiple HTTP Responses (for the purpose of testing error conditions in a piece of software.) This is not the kind of thing that would generally make any sense, as there is generally one HTTP Request followed by one matching HTTP Response.

I suppose my question is: "Is there any Perl module that I can use to create and send an HTTP Response, without having first received an HTTP Request?"

Any help, or interesting ideas would be very much appreciated. This has me stumped, and I think there is a chance that it is just not possible.

Cheers,
Shug

In reply to Sending unmatched HTTP Responses by shug94

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