Perl webserver

martymart has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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

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Re: Perl webserver by larsen (Parson) on Aug 19, 2003 at 10:16 UTC
Try to look at Jellybean.	[reply]
Re: Perl webserver by valdez (Monsignor) on Aug 19, 2003 at 10:23 UTC
I think a bare bones Apache would be better: it's smaller and safer. Ciao, Valerio	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl webserver by bean (Monk) on Aug 19, 2003 at 19:33 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re: Perl webserver by bm (Hermit) on Aug 19, 2003 at 11:29 UTC
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. -- bm	[reply]
Re: Perl webserver by dree (Monsignor) on Aug 19, 2003 at 14:38 UTC
With the help of google: pyxus openpsp dnhttpd hconf perlwebserver pwins naridesh plexus perl http server	[reply]
Re: Perl webserver by Zeroth (Beadle) on Aug 19, 2003 at 10:21 UTC
A search on cpan gave me this: HTTPi It doesn't seem to support cgi though.	[reply]
Re: Perl webserver by DigitalKitty (Parson) on Aug 20, 2003 at 08:14 UTC
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	[reply]
Re: Perl webserver by strat (Canon) on Aug 20, 2003 at 08:59 UTC
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"	[reply]
Re: Perl webserver by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 19, 2003 at 21:14 UTC
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	[reply]


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