What is the easiest and lightest way to make a client-server in Perl ?

Question

It will be better if this solution is based on HTTP protocol.

Answer 1

Checkout HTTP::Daemon in CPAN. It will give you the basics of a server. You can then over-ride methods to handle your HTTP.

Alternatively, try HTTP::Server::Simple although that module doesn't seem as mature as the first one.

Finally, you could take a look at Net::Server, which is a more general approach.

Answer 2

HTTP Perl Client implementation are slow (one million CPU cycles just for HTTP headers mangling). (If you ask for fast they bane you. Asking for fast implementation is strongly forbidden.) May be try WWW::Curl or better LWP::Curl which seems in early stage but promising. At servers side use apache2 with mod_perl. If you don't want HTTP use PlRPC seems very promising.

Edit: If you note it they down vote you. Of course.

Answer 3

With IO::All you can make a client/server in about 2 lines of code (see link).