#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11134663 use warnings; use IO::Socket; use IO::Select; my $listen = IO::Socket::INET->new( LocalPort => 8080, # setup Listen => 256, Reuse => 1) or die $@; my $sel = IO::Select->new($listen); sub checkforrequests { for my $fh ( $sel->can_read(0) ) # 0 for poll { my $socket = $fh->accept; my $request = ''; 1 while sysread $socket, $request, 4096, length $request and not $request =~ /\n\r?\n/; # empty line test print $request =~ s/^/got HTTP packet: /gmr; # FIXME for testing # FIXME process request here print $socket "OK\n"; # FIXME sample response $request =~ /quit/ and die "exiting on 'quit'\n"; # FIXME for testing } } while( 1 ) # your loop as I understand it { select undef, undef, undef, 0.2; # FIXME your non-network stuff checkforrequests(); # this is added to your loop } #### wget -q -O - http://localhost:8080/CMD=changeplaylist #### got HTTP packet: GET /CMD=changeplaylist HTTP/1.1 got HTTP packet: User-Agent: Wget/1.21.1 got HTTP packet: Accept: */* got HTTP packet: Accept-Encoding: identity got HTTP packet: Host: localhost:8080 got HTTP packet: Connection: Keep-Alive got HTTP packet: