Hi,
I am trying to connect to a IMS server through Socket connection, while reading the file handler SOCK, the program is not coming out of the while loop. Please let me know what is the problem over here. Please tell me why the program is not coming out of the while loop. Thanks in advance. Regards, Franklin

use Socket;

$iaddr = inet_aton($IMS_SERVER) or die "error could not connect to IMS
+'

$paddr = sockaddr_in($IMS_PORT, $iaddr);

$proto = getprotobyname('tcp');

$IRM_message = pack "NnnA8NNA8nnA8A8A8A8A8A8nnA$msgin_len nn",
                 $IRMlen, 80, 0, "*IRMREQ*", 0, 0, "", 32, 64,
                 $trancode, $IMSID, "", "$RACFID", "", "$RACFPW",
                 $tranlen, 0, $message_in, 4, 0;


socket(SOCK, AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or &ErrorScreen(0, "socket 
+failed: $!");


if (!(connect(SOCK,$paddr))){
     print "OTMA connect failed<br>";
     return $message_out;
} else {
      send(SOCK,$IRM_message,0)  or  &ErrorScreen(0, "send IRM: $!");

    while (read(SOCK,$tmp_msg,2048) > 0 ) {
        $message_out .= $tmp_msg;
    }

     close(SOCK);

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