Hello Monks


So here's the story... I have a Flash program running on a server that sits and listens on a port. In order to do this
you need to have a "Flash Policy File" which I have and does work when sending XML Data from a C# program another employee
wrote. So I run the "flashpolicyd.pl" file and pass it my XML "Policy File" which is currently set to receive requests from
ANY host. So that part at least I know works.

So now I'm trying to send some other XML Data to the server using a Perl Script. From the Perl side of things I don't get any
errors. But when I look over at the Server that is listening for a Socket connection, I can see the following in the Windows
CMD Prompt for the output from the "flashpolicyd.pl" script: (*I can see my PC's IP Address)

   "Connection from 192.168.x.xxx:56321
    Unrecognized request: <FRAME><MESSAGE VAR="TestVariable" TEXT="ValueOFVariable" /></FRAME>"

So for some reason the XML data I'm sending is invalid according to the Perl script "flashpolicyd.pl"...

My Perl script which sends the data to the server from my PC:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use LWP::Socket;

print "In Perl Script... Sending message now\n";

my $socket = new LWP::Socket;
$socket->connect('192.168.5.26', 843); # echo

    my $quote = "<FRAME><MESSAGE VAR=\"TestVariable\" TEXT=\"ValueOFVa
+irable\"/></FRAME>\0";


$socket->write("$quote\n");
$socket = undef;  # close

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I got the code from this link below at search.cpan.org:
  "http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/LWP-attic-1.00/lib/LWP/Socket.pm"


If you need to see the "flashpolicyd.pl" file too just let me know, I just got that Perl script from the Web somewhere,
and it does work for another program written in C#, which sends XML Data in pretty much the exact same format.


Anyone have any clue what I could be doing wrong here..? Is there just something I'm missing?
Any thoughts/suggestions would be VERY much appreciated.


Thanks in Advance,
Matt


In reply to Error while using LWP::Socket to send XML Data by mmartin

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