CGI harness, anyone?

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Has anyone done a CGI protocol module?  No, not CGI.pm.  The *server*
side of the protocol!

I can see three immediate uses for that:

1. adding it to HTTP::Daemon to make a real mini-CGI server
2. testing CGI programs without a webserver
3. calling one CGI program from another (a frequent misunderstood request)

and perhaps

4. one or two more columns!  (yes!)

The API should have lots of defaults... at a bare minimum, specifying
the form data, but also allowing to say whether we're simulating
GET/POST, how to deal with non-zero exits and STDERR, how to deal with
Location: headers, provide hooks for file uploads, etc etc.  Maybe it
should take a HTTP::Request as an input value, and return an
HTTP::Response (or would that be overkill?).  In fact, maybe it can be
a special subclass of LWP::UserAgent which recognizes a particular
server as being local, or a scheme type of "cgi:".

So, has anyone thought about this?  Tackled this?  Completed this?
Documented this?

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