I am trying to write a process that essentially acts as an conduit between two other proceses. I want to open a serversocket A and a client socket B. Something like. 
$server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Listen => 5,
    LocalAddr => 'localhost',
    LocalPort => $local_port,
    Proto => 'tcp') or die "Cant create server socket: !";
while ($client = $server->accept)
{
    $proxy = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                PeerAddr => $proxy_host,
                PeerPort => $proxy_port,
                Proto    => 'tcp') 
    or die "cannot create proxy socket: $!"    
# At this point here I want to connect the $proxy file handle and  
# the $client file handle ..
}

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By connect I mean I want the any op from $client to be shoved into the ip of $proxy and any op from $proxy to be shoved in the ip of $client. Clear .. no not to me either I am sure I am doing summat wrong.

Now I guess I could do this by spawning 2 threads one to read and one to write then just bucket the data across however I am looking for a simpler solution.

I would be keen to hear anyones suggestions. I half think I am missing some thing and should not be even attempting this so please tell me I am being dumb if you see that to be the case.

Thanks very much for your time.
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Zigster

In reply to Is there any way to connect two sockets together? by zigster

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