use Time::HiRes qw( usleep ); ... while (my $c = $d->accept) { threads->create(\&process_one_req, $c)->detach(); usleep(50_000); } #### use HTTP::Daemon; use threads; my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new(LocalAddr => $ARGV[0], LocalPort => 80, Reuse => 1, Listen => 20) || die; print "Web Server started, server address: ", $d->sockhost(), ", server port: ", $d->sockport(), "\n"; while (my $c = $d->accept) { threads->create(\&process_client_requests, $c)->detach; $c->close; # close client socket in server } sub process_client_requests { my $c = shift; $c->daemon->close; # close server socket in client while(my $r = $c->get_request) { if ($r->method eq "GET") { my $path = $r->url->path(); $c->send_file_response($path) or die $!; #or do whatever you want here } else { print "unknown method ".$r->method."\n" } } $c->close; }