Net::Server 0.93

Net::Server is an extensible, general Perl server engine.
SYNOPSIS
#!/usr/bin/perl -w -T
package MyPackage;
use Net::Server;
@ISA = qw(Net::Server);
sub process_request {
#...code...
}
MyPackage->run(port => 160);
exit;
Main features:
- Single Server Mode
- Inetd Server Mode
- Preforking Simple Mode (PreForkSimple)
- Preforking Managed Mode (PreFork)
- Forking Mode
- Multiplexing Mode using a single process
- Multi port accepts on Single, Preforking, and Forking modes
- Simultaneous accept/recv on tcp, udp, and unix sockets
- Safe signal handling in Fork/PreFork avoids perl signal trouble
- User customizable hooks
- Chroot ability after bind
- Change of user and group after bind
- Basic allow/deny access control
- Customized logging (choose Syslog, log_file, or STDERR)
- HUP able server (clean restarts via sig HUP)
- Dequeue ability in all Fork and PreFork modes.
- Taint clean
- Written in Perl
- Protection against buffer overflow
- Clean process flow
- Extensibility
Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine. Net::Server combines the good properties from Net::Daemon (0.34), NetServer::Generic (1.03), and Net::FTPServer (1.0), and also from various concepts in the Apache Webserver.
Net::Server attempts to be a generic server as in Net::Daemon and NetServer::Generic. It includes with it the ability to run as an inetd process (Net::Server::INET), a single connection server (Net::Server or Net::Server::Single), a forking server (Net::Server::Fork), a preforking server which maintains a constant number of preforked children (Net::Server::PreForkSimple), or as a managed preforking server which maintains the number of children based on server load (Net::Server::PreFork). In all but the inetd type, the server provides the ability to connect to one or to multiple server ports.
Net::Server uses ideologies of Net::FTPServer in order to provide extensibility. The additional server types are made possible via "personalities" or sub classes of the Net::Server. By moving the multiple types of servers out of the main Net::Server class, the Net::Server concept is easily extended to other types (in the near future, we would like to add a "Thread" personality).
Net::Server borrows several concepts from the Apache Webserver. Net::Server uses "hooks" to allow custom servers such as SMTP, HTTP, POP3, etc. to be layered over the base Net::Server class. In addition the Net::Server::PreFork class borrows concepts of min_start_servers, max_servers, and min_waiting servers.
Net::Server::PreFork also uses the concept of an flock serialized accept when accepting on multiple ports (PreFork can choose between flock, IPC::Semaphore, and pipe to control serialization).