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HTTP-Handy-1.00

Changes for version 1.00 - 2026-02-23

  • First release on CPAN.
  • HTTP/1.0 server with GET and POST support.
  • PSGI subset compatible interface ($env / response arrayref).
  • HTTP::Handy::Input: in-memory psgi.input object compatible with Perl 5.5.3 (no open-on-scalar-ref dependency).
  • serve_static: static file serving with MIME type detection, index.html fallback, path traversal protection, and cache_max_age option for Cache-Control header.
  • url_decode, parse_query: URL utility functions.
  • is_htmx: detect htmx requests via HX-Request header.
  • response_html, response_text, response_json, response_redirect: convenience response builders.
  • Access log to STDERR in LTSV format (time, method, path, status, size, ua, referer).
  • max_post_size option to run() for configurable POST body limit (default 10 MB).
  • App exceptions caught via eval and returned as 500 responses.
  • Built-in demo application (run directly: perl Handy.pm).
  • Zero dependencies beyond Perl core modules.
  • Runs on Perl 5.5.3 and all later versions on all operating systems.

Modules

HTTP::Handy
A tiny HTTP/1.0 server for Perl 5.5.3 and later

Provides

HTTP::Handy::Input
in lib/HTTP/Handy.pm

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