Hola, senioritas muy bonita! I am writing an encrypted tunneling proxy for HTTP using Perl on one end and I am having trouble receiving data from the browser due to the header having a variable number of lines and the number of lines to read from the incoming socket can change. If I use something like this:
while ( $buffer = <$client> ) { 
$input = $input.$buffer; 
}

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The code will keep blocking waiting for more input after all the data has come through. Sometimes, the browser adds the If-modified-since line in the header so if I use a static number of reads, the data will be without this line and the terminating character that comes with it and the browser won't understand the request.

Any help that you can give is greatly appreciated.

-Tom Servo

In reply to Reading from a socket by tomservo

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