Hi.

Thanks for the advice. I am 'limited' to perl 5.6 ( school ) but I did manage to expand on my code base: 

# Perl server

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;

local $| = 1;
my $ID;
my $PW;
my $port = 8500;
my $client;
my $server = new IO::Socket::INET(

             LocalPort => $port,
             Type      => SOCK_STREAM,
             Listen    => 5,
             Proto     => 'tcp',
             Reuse     => 1,
            

  ) or die "Couldn't construct server on port: $port : $!\n";

$client = $server->accept();
print $client "ID:";
$ID = <$client>;
print "I received $ID\n";

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#Perl client.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;

local $| = 1;
my $host = '127.0.0.1';
my $port = 8500;
my $ID;
my $PW;

my $client = new IO::Socket::INET(

   PeerAddr  => $host,
   PeerPort  => $port,
   Proto     => 'tcp',
   Type      => SOCK_STREAM,

   ) or die "Couldn't create client : $!\n";

my $data = <$client>;
print $data;
chomp( $ID = <$client> );
print $client $ID;

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The primary problem is I can pass the prompt to the client ( e.g. ID? ), but I don't know how to obtain the input then return that to the server. I tried <STDIN> but the program simply hung. If I can prompt for three scalars ( ID, PW, and assignment_to_submit ) and return each piece of input to the server, I don't forsee too much difficulty in completing the remainder of the project.

Thanks,
-Katie.

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

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