Bug#617520: HTTP::Daemon

[Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


Owner: Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libhttp-daemon-perl
  Version         : 6.00
  Upstream Author : Gisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Daemon/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : simple http server class

Instances of the HTTP::Daemon class are HTTP/1.1 servers that listen on a
socket for incoming requests. The HTTP::Daemon is a subclass of
IO::Socket::INET, so you can perform socket operations directly on it too.

The accept() method will return when a connection from a client is available.
The returned value will be an HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn object which is
another IO::Socket::INET subclass. Calling the get_request() method on this
object will read data from the client and return an HTTP::Request object. The
ClientConn object also provide methods to send back various responses.

This HTTP daemon does not fork(2) for you. Your application, i.e. the user of
the HTTP::Daemon is responsible for forking if that is desirable. Also note
that the user is responsible for generating responses that conform to the
HTTP/1.1 protocol.