1. You read the data from the client socket. Essentially, the order goes something like this:
  1. the server accepts a request from the client and receives a filehandle
  2. the server reads from the filehandle just as it would from any filehandle (ie., using <>, or read, etc.)
  3. you read the GET or POST line, then the request headers, then a blank line (end of headers); you should look for a Content-Length header, which will tell you how long the POST content should be. Then read that much content.
2. I'm not sure exactly how you can trap a client closing the socket; do you mean if the socket is closed normally, or do you mean if the socket is closed because the client hit the Stop button, for example? In the former case, you should basically close the socket once you've written out the response, I think. In the latter case, I *think* you can try to catch a $SIG{PIPE} on write attempts to the client. So set up a $SIG{PIPE} to catch such writes and close the socket.

You might also take a look at HTTP::Daemon (part of LWP), if not to use it, then just to study it for your own uses.

In reply to Re: Questions on socket by btrott
in thread Questions on socket by Delfer

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