Net::HTTPServer

This is a light weight HTTP server that serves files as well as attaching function calls to URL requests. This allows you to do a lot of things:

• embed the web server into your program and serve up anything your program can do
• make a file available for download that you created
• just take you CGI program and turn it into a stand alone HTTP server that you can run on any machine.
• lots lots more

Ryan Eatmon
reatmon@mail.com

REQUIREMENTS

• URI - Handles all of the URL magic

OPTIONAL

• IO::Socket::SSL - Allows for a secure web server
• MIME::Base64 - Allows for Basic Authentication
• Digest::MD5 - Allows for Digest Autentication

INSTALLATION

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

STATUS

This update contains a new OOP style interface for requests and replies. I also added support for PHP style server side sessions.

The result of moving to the OOP interface is that the calling and return structure for handlers has changed. For those that want to upgrade to this version of the module but do not want to have to rewrite your handlers immediately there is a config option for the server. 'oldrequests'=>1 will put the entire server back into the pre-1.0 style of handlers. Giving you a chance to install the module and play with it before undertaking the conversion.

Aplogies for the change.

DATE
2004/07/03