use warnings; use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => 'localhost', LocalPort => '12345', Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 1, ReuseAddr => 1, ); die "Could not create socket : $!\n" unless $sock; print "Socket created: $sock\n"; my $newsock = $sock->accept(); while (<$newsock>) { print $_; } close($sock);