Perl webserver

[martymart]

Fellow Monks,

I'm trying to find a webserver that's written in Perl. I know this could be done with HTTP::Daemon, but unfortunately I have no knowledge of this type of module (actually if anybody knows of a good tutorial or introduction to using perl daemons/Sockets that would be great -- it would be better still if a wise monk added such information to the tutorials section of perlmonks maybe!!) What I am looking for should be something similar to TinyWeb (i.e. supports basic logs and running cgi scripts). If anybody could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.
Basically, I have perl installed on an old machine with very limited space, and I just want a bare bones webserver. Is perl suited to this kind of task?

Many Thanks
Martymart

[larsen]

Try to look at Jellybean.

[valdez]

I think a bare bones Apache would be better: it's smaller and safer.

Ciao, Valerio

[bean]

I'll second this. I once prototyped a message server in Perl and then rewrote it in C - the C version was at least an order of magnitude faster, and used considerably less memory. Of course, the C version was leaner in design partly because it is so much work to do _anything_ in C, but still... The point is, vanilla Apache takes up less than 2Mb and is fast, efficient, and well-tested.

[bm]

I don't know if this will be small enough for you, but IndigoPerl contains Apache and Perl 5.8, plus a whole heap of non-core, web related modules (like Encode and XML::**) for the Win32 platform.
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bm

[dree]

With the help of google:
• pyxus
• openpsp
• dnhttpd
• hconf
• perlwebserver
• pwins
• naridesh
• plexus
• perl http server

[Zeroth]

A search on cpan gave me this: HTTPi
It doesn't seem to support cgi though.

[DigitalKitty]

actually if anybody knows of a good tutorial or introduction to using perl daemons/Sockets that would be great

Hi martymart.

One of the finest perl related books I own is:

Title:Network Programming with Perl
ISBN:0201615711
Price:$49.99


Hope this helps,
-Katie

[strat]

You might find the following links helpful:
POE -> Web Server or Web Server With Components or Web Server With Forking or Web Stream Server
The example on Poor man's webchat from merlyn gave me a good startup with Http::Daemon

Best regards,
perl -e "s>>*F>e=>y)\*martinF)stronat)=>print,print v8.8.8.32.11.32"

[CountZero]

Why not trying Apache 2? It is not that large and you can customize it with Perl (through mod_perl). There is a great "works right out of the box" package to be found at Apachefiends.

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law