I need to implement a simple proxy server in perl in order to test a client program, which talks to a server in certain text based protocol(RTSP). What I want is simple:
1. the proxy should bypass the setup/teardown request to the server.
2. for non setup/teardown messages, the proxy should be able to modify the server's responses and then send them back to the client in order to test different possible secnarios, which may be hard to see with direct client-server communication.

Does anyone know of any code sample of a proxy server in perl? Or, any suggestion on where to start? I know perl, but I havent' done any network programming with threads. Thanks.

In reply to coding a simple proxy server in perl by learnscript

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