When I use sockets in my perl scripts I use IO::Socket; then my $sock = IO::Socket::INET(<specifications>); I was wondering if it is possible to have the client recieve data from the server rather than the srver just recieve data, I mean it seems very possible and likely. I wanted to allow multipul connections to a general server and have it reieve data from all clients and then send all the clients all data that has been recieved out.