Well you have other good answers by my 2 cents is this: You are reinventing he wheel making a socket server, and there is a lot of complication because you have to handle different client instances, and handle the various situations to manage the sockets/sessions/clients. Then you also have the problem of framing/structuring the info over the tcp stream itself. You are much better just jumping straight to something already event driven and using a higher level protocol so sockets, connections, tcp, are all abstracted away.

An example is a simple HTTP server:

use AnyEvent;
use AnyEvent::HTTPD;

# Create server
my $server = AnyEvent::HTTPD->new(host => '127.0.0.1',port => 3333);

# Setup response for requests
$server->reg_cb ('/test' => sub {
    my ($obj, $req) = @_;
    print "Got message '".$req->content."' from client ".$req->client_
+host.":".$req->client_port."\n";
    $req->respond([200, 'ok', { 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain' }, 'Hel
+lo' ]);
});

AnyEvent->condvar->recv; #wait forever

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For the client use LWP::UserAgent, or even AnyEvent::HTTP client:

use AnyEvent;
use AnyEvent::HTTP;

my $cv = AnyEvent->condvar;

http_post "http://127.0.0.1:3333/test", "99", persistent=>1, sub {
    my ($data, $headers) = @_;
    print "Got back message '$data' from server\n";
    $cv->send; # stop waiting
};

$cv->recv; # Wait for response

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In reply to Re: IO::Socket simple server by Anonymous Monk
in thread IO::Socket simple server by packetstormer

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