Source: libhttp-daemon-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libhttp-date-perl, libhttp-message-perl, liblwp-mediatypes-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Nicholas Bamber Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Homepage: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTTP-Daemon/ Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libhttp-daemon-perl.git Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libhttp-daemon-perl.git Package: libhttp-daemon-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libhttp-date-perl, libhttp-message-perl, liblwp-mediatypes-perl Replaces: libwww-perl (<< 6.00) Breaks: libwww-perl (<< 6.00) 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.