>> where the line followed by [C] stands for the line sent by the client, >> and the line followed by [S] is the line sent by some perl module. > > It sounds to me as though you want to use Apache as a network service > framework. Not a bad idea, but Apache already stands on a set protocol. > Is this right, or do you actually want to run Apache as a web server on port > 80 AND have this non-HTTP thing going on at the same time from the same port?
Thanks for your prompt response. In fact I would like to write some little scripts to talk with the internals of Apache over port 80, and I was wondering if it is possible to write a handler to handle a 'new http method', because I could not find any hint in the user guide. :)