#! /usr/bin/perl use IO::Socket::INET; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => '127.0.0.1', PeerPort => '30000', Proto => 'tcp', ); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; print $sock "Hello there!\n"; my $new_sock = $sock->accept(); while(defined(<$sockin>)) { print "Arrived?\n"; print $_; } print "Stopped! \n"; close($sock);