RE: Automating network testing with POE (web services IPC)

It really sounds like you need to segregate the webapp from the actual
daemon. And with that, you do not need to run POE within mod_perl (not
that you could anyhow). But you obviously need POE communication
between the web server and the POE daemon. So I recommend using
POE::Component::IKC::ClientLite
(http://search.cpan.org/~gwyn/POE-Component-IKC-0.2003/IKC/ClientLite.pm).
As for worker/controller interaction, IKC can serve those needs too,
without having to involve a protocol layer beyond a TCP socket and the
serializer that IKC uses.