August 2026 Archives

WebDyne 3.0 released -- now with PAGI, Server-Sent Events and WebSockets

I’ve released WebDyne 3.0, an update to the Perl-based dynamic HTML engine I have created.

The biggest addition in 3.0 is support for PAGI, alongside the existing PSGI and Apache/mod_perl backends.

PAGI support brings an asynchronous/event-oriented interface to WebDyne and allows WebDyne applications to handle more than conventional HTTP request/response traffic:

  • Server-Sent Events (SSE) for streaming events from Perl applications to browsers
  • WebSocket connections for bidirectional, long-lived connections
  • N…

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