Re: Simple UDP example anyone?

Recipe 17.5 of the Perl Cookbook is handy:

use IO::Socket;
use strict;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Proto    => 'udp',
    PeerPort => 5000,
    PeerAddr => 'hostname',
) or die "Could not create socket: $!\n";

$sock->send('a file to have your advice') or die "Send error: $!\n";
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perlipc has other examples. IO::Socket is slightly easier than Socket, and translating between the two isn't terribly difficult.

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Re: Re: Simple UDP example anyone? by mitd (Curate) on Dec 05, 2001 at 14:54 UTC
`$sock->send('a file to have your advice')` [download] Now thats what I call a datagram with a message. lol, chromatic++ mitd-Made in the Dark 'Interactive! Paper tape is interactive! If you don't believe me I can show you my paper cut scars!'	[reply] [d/l]
IO::Socket by Ea (Chaplain) on Dec 05, 2001 at 16:44 UTC
What few people mention is that IO::Socket doesn't work under Solaris (I believe that Sun has hardcoded the constants to non-standard values or similar rubbish) and you get stuck with using Socket Ea :wq	[reply]
Re: IO::Socket by vek (Prior) on Dec 05, 2001 at 20:36 UTC
IO::Socket actually does work under Solaris. I've been using it for XML servers on 4 different Solaris boxes ranging from 5.6 to 5.8. It's actually really sweet.	[reply]
Re: Re: IO::Socket by tradez (Pilgrim) on Dec 06, 2001 at 01:34 UTC
I actually have done the same, and have successfully coded many a daemon to run on solaris systems. Sun can be very nice to you when you learn to use it.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: IO::Socket by Ea (Chaplain) on Dec 06, 2001 at 15:13 UTC


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