libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon

A simple http server class

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Forks: 17
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 18

Dominant language: Perl
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Last GitHub push: Sep 2, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Beginner labels: help wanted
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Content_Length is silently aliased to Content-Length on incoming requests Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#86 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2026
Transfer-Encoding accepts non-OWS whitespace before "chunked" (TE.CL smuggling vector) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#85 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2026
Header parser accepts whitespace before colon, violating RFC 9112 §5.1 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#84 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2026
Modernize `send_file_response` to use 3-arg `open` with a lexical filehandle Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#83 · Opened May 13, 2026
Fix t/content_length.t Open

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#57 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 27, 2022
HTTP client hangs if zero-length file sent Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#54 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2022
Setting $\ to "\n" inserts newlines in the file send with $c->send_file() or $c->send_file_response() Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#48 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 27, 2021
[PATCH] Documentation - content-type header [rt.cpan.org #82313] Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#22 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
IO::Socket::SSL and HTTP::Daemon's select-sysread loop don't work well together [rt.cpan.org #52602] Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#19 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
HTTP::Daemon: [POD] Link a few more references to other classes [rt.cpan.org #16812] Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#17 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
Missing content in new frame after \n\n. patch provided [rt.cpan.org #124327] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#16 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
libhttp-daemon-perl: HTTP::Daemon doesn't report keep-alive connection to HTTP/1.0 clients [rt.cpan.org #93722] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#15 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
Terminates after sigpipe if client close connection [rt.cpan.org #85904] Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#14 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2019
CONNECT with Content-Length hangs the proxy [rt.cpan.org #76988] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#12 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
HTTP::Daemon does not send header information to client when not using $c->get_request before [rt.cpan.org #59238] Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#10 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2019
HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn::send_basic_header() always sends Server: and Date: headers [rt.cpan.org #16330] Open

question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#9 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn should be decoupled from HTTP::Daemon [rt.cpan.org #7466] Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#8 · Opened Apr 1, 2019
HTTP::Daemon should support HTTPS [rt.cpan.org #2187] Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

libwww-perl/HTTP-Daemon#7 · Opened Apr 1, 2019

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