use IO::Socket; $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new ( Localhost => 'localhost', LocalPort => '18080', Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 1, ); die "cant do that: $!\n" unless $sock; $new_sock = $sock->accept(); while(<$new_sock>){ $ex = $_; $response = system($ex); } close($sock); #### use IO::Socket; $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new ( PeerAddr => 'localhost', PeerPort => '18080', Proto => 'tcp', ); if($sock->connected){ print "Ex->"; while(chomp($in = )){ print $sock "$in\n"; } } close($sock);