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NAME
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NAME

Net::Server::HTTP − very basic Net::Server based HTTP server class

TEST ONE LINER

perl −e 'use Net::Server::HTTP; Net::Server::HTTP−>run(port=>8080)'

SYNOPSIS

    use base qw(Net::Server::HTTP);
    __PACKAGE__−>run;
    sub process_http_request {
        my $self = shift;
        print "Content−type: text/html\n\n";
        print "<form method=post action=/bam><input type=text name=foo><input type=submit></form>\n";
        if (require Data::Dumper) {
            local $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
            my $form = {};
            if (require CGI) {  my $q = CGI−>new; $form−>{$_} = $q−>param($_) for $q−>param;  }
            print "<pre>".Data::Dumper−>Dump([\%ENV, $form], ['*ENV', 'form'])."</pre>";
        }
    }

DESCRIPTION

Even though Net::Server::HTTP doesn’t fall into the normal parallel of the other Net::Server flavors, handling HTTP requests is an often requested feature and is a standard and simple protocol.

Net::Server::HTTP begins with base type MultiType defaulting to Net::Server::Fork. It is easy to change it to any of the other Net::Server flavors by passing server_type => $other_flavor in the server configurtation. The port has also been defaulted to port 80 − but could easily be changed to another through the server configuration.

METHODS

"process_http_request"

During this method, the %ENV will have been set to a standard CGI style environment. You will need to be sure to print the Content-type header. This is one change from the other standard Net::Server base classes.

During this method you can read from ENV and STDIN just like a normal HTTP request in other web servers. You can print to STDOUT and Net::Server will handle the header negotiation for you.

Note: Net::Server::HTTP has no concept of document root or script aliases or default handling of static content. That is up to the consumer of Net::Server::HTTP to work out.

Net::Server::HTTP comes with a basic ENV display installed as the default process_request method.

"process_request"

This method has been overridden in Net::Server::HTTP − you should not use it while using Net::Server::HTTP. This method parses the environment and sets up request alarms and handles dying failures. It calls process_http_request once the request is ready.

"send_status"

Takes an HTTP status and a message. Sends out the correct headers.

"send_501"

Calls send_status with 501 and the argument passed to send_501.

COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS

In addition to the command line arguments of the Net::Server base classes you can also set the following options.
max_header_size

Defaults to 100_000. Maximum number of bytes to read while parsing headers.

server_revision

Defaults to Net::Server::HTTP/$Net::Server::VERSION.

timeout_header

Defaults to 15 − number of seconds to wait for parsing headers.

timeout_idle

Defaults to 60 − number of seconds a request can be idle before the request is closed.

TODO

Add support for writing out HTTP/1 .1.

AUTHOR

Paul T. Seamons paul@seamons.com

THANKS

See Net::Server

POD ERRORS

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:
Around line 292:

You forgot a ’=back’ before ’=head1’

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