#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w
$|++;

use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;

# Number of times to attempt a server connection
my $max_attempts = $ARGV[0] || 10000;

my $sock;
for my $i (1 .. $max_attempts) {
  $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    PeerAddr => '127.0.0.1',
    PeerPort => '7070',
    Proto => 'tcp'
  );

  if (defined $sock) {
    print "Connection to server established.\n\n";
    last;
  } else {
    print "Attempt $i/$max_attempts failed.\n";
    die "Could not connect to the server.\n\n"
      if $i == $max_attempts;
  }

  sleep 2;
}

# Continually grab input from the server
my $byte;
print $byte while sysread($sock, $byte, 1);

close $sock;