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Perl Simple Webserver

Terminal - Perl Simple Webserver
perl -MIO::All -e 'io(":8080")->fork->accept->(sub { $_[0] < io(-x $1 ? "./$1 |" : $1) if /^GET \/(.*) / })'
2010-03-31 15:03:55
User: Neo23x0
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Perl Simple Webserver

First we accept a socket and fork the server. Then we overload the new socket as a code ref. This code ref takes one argument, another code ref, which is used as a callback.

The callback is called once for every line read on the socket. The line is put into $_ and the socket itself is passed in to the callback.

Our callback is scanning the line in $_ for an HTTP GET request. If one is found it parses the file name into $1. Then we use $1 to create an new IO::All file object... with a twist. If the file is executable("-x"), then we create a piped command as our IO::All object. This somewhat approximates CGI support.

Whatever the resulting object is, we direct the contents back at our socket which is in $_[0].

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That's not simple. But it is Perl, and that makes it AWESOME. Good explanation.

Comment by linuxrawkstar 163 weeks and 6 days ago

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Comment by tebeka 163 weeks and 6 days ago

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