simple server

[D Borland]

Hi,

I am looking to create database (probably) using SQLlite and perl and it's
interface. What i would like to know is there any way with perl for me to
create a simple server, so i could say open a local file form the harddrive
in my webbrowser, then click on a link to execute a perl script which will
in turn return data to the current browser process.

Hope i explained that ok.

With Thanks

D Borland


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[Tad McClellan]

D Borland <no.name@eidosnet.co.uk> wrote:

> What i would like to know is there any way with perl for me to
> create a simple server, so i could say open a local file form the harddrive
> in my webbrowser, then click on a link to execute a perl script which will
> in turn return data to the current browser process.

Any web server will do that.

There are many free web servers available.

What is your Perl question?


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[D Borland]

my perl question was how do i do that i perl, not with Apache, et cetera, or
another server. I was wondering if perl has an ability to do that.

That was what i asked wasn't it?

D Borland

"Tad McClellan" <tadmc@augustmail.com> wrote in message
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> D Borland <no.name@eidosnet.co.uk> wrote:
>

> > What i would like to know is there any way with perl for me to
> > create a simple server, so i could say open a local file form the

harddrive

> > in my webbrowser, then click on a link to execute a perl script which

will

> > in turn return data to the current browser process.

>
>
> Any web server will do that.
>
> There are many free web servers available.
>
> What is your Perl question?
>
>
> --
> Tad McClellan SGML consulting
> [email]tadmc@augustmail.com[/email] Perl programming
> Fort Worth, Texas

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[James Taylor]

In article <bkf9qd$7p9$1@titan.btinternet.com>,
D Borland <no.name@eidosnet.co.uk> wrote:

>
> "Tad McClellan" <tadmc@augustmail.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnbmm6r2.gdh.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com...

> >
> > D Borland <no.name@eidosnet.co.uk> wrote:

> > >
> > > is there any way with perl for me to create a simple server,
> > > so i could say open a local file form the harddrive in my
> > > webbrowser, then click on a link to execute a perl script
> > > which will in turn return data to the current browser process.

> >
> > Any web server will do that.
> >
> > There are many free web servers available.

That wasn't his question. He may not have access to a suitable
platform for running any of those servers, or he may simply
want to study the code of a simple Perl HTTP server.

I'd also like to play with a simple Perl web server so an answer
to his question would help me and probably many others too.

> > What is your Perl question?

>
> my perl question was how do i do that in perl,

I've just had a quick look on CPAN: http:/search.cpan.org/
and the following category looks interesting:
[url]http://search.cpan.org/modlist/World_Wide_Web/HTTP[/url]
In particular, [url]http://search.cpan.org/search?module=HTTP::Daemon[/url]
might be useful. However, someone else may be able to point us
directly at a portable HTTP server that supports CGI.

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[Alan J. Flavell]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, James Taylor wrote:

> I'd also like to play with a simple Perl web server so an answer
> to his question would help me and probably many others too.

CPAN is always the first port of call for such a requirement, rather
than usenet, no?

> I've just had a quick look on CPAN: http:/search.cpan.org/
> and the following category looks interesting:
> [url]http://search.cpan.org/modlist/World_Wide_Web/HTTP[/url]
> In particular, [url]http://search.cpan.org/search?module=HTTP::Daemon[/url]
> might be useful.

I where I'd start, if I had such a requirement, yes...

> However, someone else may be able to point us
> directly at a portable HTTP server that supports CGI.

Supporting CGI - supporting it properly, in accordance with the rules
of HTTP and of the CGI spec - is not exactly "simple", and any
substantive deviation could be a make-or-break difference from what a
real server would do. So in order to give a competent response to a
user requirement of this kind, I think we'd need to know more about
the requirements than merely that the questioner "wants to do it in
Perl".

My gut feeling still says this: Apache is a competent server[*], it's
available for a wide range of platforms, it's happy to talk to Perl
scripts as CGI processes or in other ways (API, mod_perl), there are
lots of folk who can and will help you with using it; it would need a
very strong reason to want to re-invent that part of the wheel in
Perl.
[*] well, two, depending on which version you favour, 1.3.* or 2.*

[Tad McClellan]

D Borland <no.name@eidosnet.co.uk> wrote:

> "Tad McClellan" <tadmc@augustmail.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnbmm6r2.gdh.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com...

>> Any web server will do that.

> I was wondering if perl has an ability to do that.

Yes, you can write a web server in Perl.


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