Hey all, I'm trying to learn a bit about Perl sockets. I got these simple client/server scripts from http://www.perlfect.com/articles/sockets.shtml and I can't even get them to work. When I run the client against the server I get no output at the server. The "Socket defined" line does get printed so I assume that means that the socket is connected. I get "IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0xf6420)" as the file handle from the client. I have no idea if that is correct. Is there something missing, how does $_ get assigned the input from $new_sock? Thanks.
Server: #!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => 'IP_GOES_HERE', (<-- yes this is set properly) LocalPort => '60000', Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 1, Reuse => 1, ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; my $new_sock = $sock->accept(); while(defined(<$new_sock>)) { print "Socket defined\n"; print $_; } close($sock); Client: #!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => 'IP_GOES_HERE', PeerPort => '60000', Proto => 'tcp', ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; print "$sock\n"; print $sock "test\n"; close($sock); Dave Sorrells ciber Office: (585) 231-2071 Cell: (585) 755-9015 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text Messaging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Dave Ciber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]