Hi,
I have a perl executable (kindof like an application) which is running on a remote machine... And people in that place only could control the exe ( like input data, accept choices etc. )
To do all that from my place, i've started to use sockets. Since I'm new to sockets and i've got to do the code in less than a week, i've not experimented with it much.
My client looks like this: 
 $sockclient = new IO::Socket::INET (PeerAddr => $remote_host,
                                  PeerPort => $remote_port,
                                  Proto    => 'tcp',
                                 );
    die "Socket could not be created. Reason: $!\n" unless $sockclient
+;

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And my server like this : 
foreach my $hostvar (@remote_host)
    {
    $sockserver = new IO::Socket::INET (LocalHost => $hostvar,
                                  LocalPort => $remote_port,
                                  Proto     => 'tcp',
                                  Listen    => 5,
                                   Reuse     => 1                     
+        
                                 ) or
    warn "Socket could not be created in $hostvar. Reason: $!" unless 
+$sockserver;
    }
    
    while ($new_sock = $sockserver->accept()) 
    {
        while (defined ($buf = <$new_sock>)) 
        {
      # do something with $buf, and ask confirmation, input #etc. from
+ the client and again come back ... in a  loop.
        }
    }
    close ($sockserver);
}

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Could anybody suggest a reliable approach to this so that :
1. My server is running infinitely,
2. My client is connected to the server, and sends info.
3. My server does something with the data and asks client for more input..
4. 2 and 3 continously until some pre-defined key is pressed.

Thanks...Rupz.

In reply to Sock-Server and Sock-Client by rupesh

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