NAME

       HTTP::Server::Simple::Static - Serve static files with HTTP::Server::Simple

VERSION

       This documentation refers to HTTP::Server::Simple::Static version 0.07

SYNOPSIS

           package MyServer;

           use base qw(HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI);
           use HTTP::Server::Simple::Static;

           my $webroot = '/var/www';

           sub handle_request {
               my ( $self, $cgi ) = @_;

               if ( !$self->serve_static( $cgi, $webroot ) ) {
                   print "HTTP/1.0 404 Not found\r\n";
                   print $cgi->header,
                         $cgi->start_html('Not found'),
                         $cgi->h1('Not found'),
                         $cgi->end_html;
               }
           }

           package main;

           my $server = MyServer->new();
           $server->run();

DESCRIPTION

       this mixin adds a method to serve static files from your HTTP::Server::Simple subclass.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

       serve_static( $cgi, $base )
           Takes a reference to the CGI object and a document root path, and tries to serve a
           static file. Returns 0 if the file does not exist, returns 1 on success.

           This method sets the "Date" and "Last-Modified" HTTP headers when sending a response
           for a valid file. Further to this, the method supports clients which send an
           "If-Modified-Since" HTTP header in the request, it will return a 304 "Not Modified"
           response if the file is unchanged. See RFC-2616 for full details.

           If the client makes a "HEAD" request then no message body will be returned in the
           response.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

       Bugs or wishlist requests should be submitted via http://rt.cpan.org/

DEPENDENCIES

       The File::LibMagic module is used to detect the MIME-type of a file. The URI::Escape
       module is used for URI handling. The HTTP::Date module is used to format the timestamp in
       the Last-Modified HTTP header.

SEE ALSO

       HTTP::Server::Simple, HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI

AUTHOR

       Stephen Quinney "sjq-perl@jadevine.org.uk"

       Thanks to Marcus Ramberg "marcus@thefeed.no" and Simon Cozens for initial implementation.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2006 - 2013. Stephen Quinney "sjq-perl@jadevine.org.uk"

       You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.