Hi everyone, It's my first day studying sockets. I'm having trouble getting the script on my server to initialize itself because I don't have a shell account for my website. Can I initialize the Socket on the server side from a cgi script on my machine?
Here's my code. #!/usr/bin/perl BEGIN{open(STDERR,">>./errsocket.txt");} use CGI header; print header; use IO::Socket; $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => 'www.websiteprogrammin.com', LocalPort => 1200, Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 5, Reuse => 1 ); print "Socket could not be created. Reason: $!" unless $sock; open (FILE, ">$file") || print "\nCouldn't open $file to write socket input.$!"; while ($new_sock = $sock->accept()) { while (defined ($buf = <$new_sock>)) { print FILE $buf; } } close ($sock); close (FILE); __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]