Hi guys, I have a socket set up with IO::Socket::INET. It works in that I am able to write to the socket, however I can't capture what the remote host sends back. I just get nothing. I know the connection works, because I can use telnet to drive the dialogue manually and when I send the 'status' request, I get a dump of data back. How can I get my socket to capture this so that I can do something useful with it? Here's a snip of the code I'm using: 
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
      PeerAddr => "$hostname",
      PeerPort => "$port",
      Blocking => 0,
      Proto => 'tcp',
 );

 print $sock "Action: Login\r\n";
 print $sock "UserName: $foo\r\n";
 print $sock "Secret: $bar\r\n\r\n";
 print $sock "Action: status\r\n\r\n";

 $/="\r\n";
 open(FH,">>/home/chris/statusdump.txt");
 while(my $data=<$sock>){
      $data =~ /[a-z]/ || next;
      print FH $data;
 }
 close FH;

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I have opened up the permissions on that temporary file and I'm tail -f'ing it to see what comes in, but the file doesn't grow at all. What's the obvious mistake please? thanks christo

In reply to Problems reading back from socket by planet_guru

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