tried the handleData() sub you suggested. Exhibits teh same exact problem as the one I described above... It was probably one of the very first versions I tried of that sub :/

The socket doesn't receive anything, hangs, until on the client connect side I CTRL+C, then the server log would show just one log message "(3) : Connection from: x.x.x.x", and the server immediately dies with no errors/warnings right after.

I will try IO::Socket, it's something I've been meaning to do.. Perhaps two different variations, one script as you describe, and another with threads and threads::shared, kind of like the 4th point discussed on this thread:
Re: Passing an IO:Handle to a Thread

My main concern behind the limitation of handling one connection at a time is the possibility of a really slow (or dysfunctional) client that takes too long to send its request (or doesn't send a request at all) after it connects to the server, making all other incoming connections queued as long as the connected (slow/dysfunctional) client has not timed out.

In reply to Re^4: Trying to thread a daemon with threads and Thread::Queue by jasmineaura
in thread Trying to thread a daemon with threads and Thread::Queue by jasmineaura

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