Was there a perl question in there somewhere?

By "write" I meant "in perl". Consider it a learning experience. Also, all I need is something that will run scripts from a cgi-bin locally based on a singular, established connection. Having never used apache, I figured that by the time I understand it I could have written something to do this (in perl).

This is what I have so far based on various examples: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# simple server

use Socket;
use IO::Handle;

socket(SERV, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM,0);
unlink "/tmp/testsock";
bind(SERV,sockaddr_un("/tmp/testsock")) or print "ERROR!";

listen(SERV,1);

while (accept(CLIENT,SERV)) {
        CLIENT->autoflush(1);
        print CLIENT "Hi there!\n";
        my $answer = <CLIENT>;
        print $answer;
}

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and 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# simple client

use Socket;
use IO::Handle;

socket(TSOCK, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM,0);
connect(TSOCK, sockaddr_un("/tmp/testsock")) or print("ERROR!");

while (defined(my $messg = <TSOCK>)) {
        print $messg;
        print TSOCK "Hello server!";
        TSOCK->flush;
}

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This works to the point where the server should recieve and print the answer from the client -- it doesn't. The initial "Hi there!" is recieved and printed tho. Once I can get back and forth communication working, I should be able to figure out what to do next.

Being kind of a luddite, I preferred not to use IO::Socket for the learning experiment.

In reply to Re^2: local webserver for CGI on linux by my_nihilist
in thread local webserver for CGI on linux by my_nihilist

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