I want to implement my own simple webserver to share data from one of my machines to pass information from one of my machines to the other.

I'm trying to use IO::Socket but seem to be running into trouble. I want to read the request and headers and then print out the appropriate page 

use strict;
use IO::Socket;
my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new (
  Proto => "tcp",
  LocalPort => 3000,
  Reuse=>1,
  Listen=>10
) or die "Cannot connect to time service";

my ($request,$remote);
$server->autoflush (1);
while (defined($remote=$server->accept())) {
   $remote->autoflush(1);
   $request=<$remote>;
   print $request."\n";
}

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I try connecting with my web browser to the machine on the correct port but the server never seems to take any of the action within the while loop.

Any help would be most appreciated.

In reply to How do I write a simple webserver by Anonymous Monk

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