in reply to Re^2: Bidirectional Client/Server - to fork or not to fork?
in thread Bidirectional Client/Server - to fork or not to fork?

BrowserUk, thank you for jump starting my critical thinking! I see what I did wrong now thanks to you!

When you pointed out about how I accept only one connection into an endless loop it made me realize what I did wrong so I changed the following and, from what I can tell so far, it appears to be working so thank you for your criticisms!!!!

# I ended up changing this
my $client = $sock->accept();

# and this
while() {
    while ($client) {
        . . .
}

# to this
my $client;

# and this
while() {
    while ($client = $sock->accept) {
        . . .
}

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and now it works for every request I tried so far! Thank you BrowserUk!

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Re^4: Bidirectional Client/Server - to fork or not to fork?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 08, 2015 at 15:52 UTC

    That still means that you aren't reading anything from the connecting client.

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