README for NetServer::Generic NetServer::Generic is a perl module that implements an object-oriented interface for developing internet servers. It requires: * Perl 5.004 or later * The following modules: -- IO::Socket (part of the standard distribution, or available from CPAN) -- IO::Select -- ChatBot::Eliza (optional: used by the elizad example) Two examples are included: elizad -- a simple psychotherapy daemon shttpd -- a really, stupidly, basic HTTP server A test script, demonstrating client/nonforking operation, is also included. NetServer::Generic is required by NetServer::SMTP and the leafmail package. To install NetServer::Generic, follow the usual Perl module installation practice, viz (probably as root): cd Generic perl Makefile.PL make make test make install NOTE: The test mechanism is slightly non-standard, because NetServer::Generic's quit() method interferes with Test::Harness. For this reason, the real test (testguts.pl) is invoked from within test.pl. *** These tests will probably not work on a non-UNIX platform. *** Problems, questions, brickbats or plaudits to: charlie@antipope.org Enjoy! -- Charlie