sslperl (1)

The sslperl program is preforks servers listening for SSL client connections. For each such connection it receives, it executes the subroutine and arguments given in prog from Perl code in the file file.

The sslperl program forks the requested number of children, each listening for TCP client connections. Before handling any requests, each child parses and runs the perl code in file. The file should end with a true expression, like a module.

To handle a request, a child process executes prog as a perl subroutine, with file descriptor_{0 reading from the network and file descriptor}1 writing to the network. Before handling the request, the child sets certain environment variables, a la sslserver.

Each invocation of prog handles a single request. It is called within a loop, with one iteration per request, and therefore must release any resources allocated to handle a particular request.

If prog exits while handling a request, sslperl will start a new child process.