Well, what you need is to learn Sockets with Perl. ;-P

If you want to enable the access of multi users in the same time to the server, take a look in this node: Re: spawning Perl scripts (Win32/Linux sample) (to run concorrent codes without threads). The use of fork is only recomended on Linux, on Win32 use threads (Perl-5.8.0).

But note that you need to know if who is connected to the server are sending right the data, or only opening the door, to avoid a basic DOS attack. To do that you can use IO::Select, but will read byte by byte!

Other thing is to limit the access to the srv for only some IPs: 

my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Listen => 5,
    LocalAddr => '192.168.0.0',
    LocalPort => 5050,
    Proto     => 'tcp'
) ;

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About the users id and pass, you can (should) use a database. Just take a look in DBI. For a very simple database, with flat files, use DBD::CSV, or DBD::SQLite. The both don't need a main server, the module work as the srv.

And CPAN is your friend: http://search.cpan.org

Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

In reply to Re: Writing a perl based 'Homework' Server. by gmpassos
in thread Writing a perl based 'Homework' Server. by DigitalKitty

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