I'm afraid the only way is to make the accepting program act as a proxy between the other program and the remote machine.

So basically, it'd look like this:

  1. Program A: incoming connection
  2. Program A accepts and does whatever needs to be done
  3. Program A finds that it is now Program B's responsibilty. Either 1) using the existing TCP connection between A and B, or 2) by establishing a new connection, A informs B about this.
  4. Program A maintains the connection to the host but doesn't do anything except for bidirectionally relaying all data it receives from either party.
  5. When program B is done as well, it tells A about it, either by sending a specific code over the existing connection or simply closing the one created in step 3.2.
  6. Program A performs the goodbye rituals as per protocol (such as sending a 'everything succesful' sort of status message) and closes the connection to the remote as well.

I could be mistaken, of course, but to my knowledge this is the only way to fulfill your requirements. It'd be much simpler, of course, if Program A could simply say "Hey, listen, I can't do anything for you anymore, but here, have this state information (session ID or just the session data, something like that, so that Program B will know what it's working with) and contact my friend, program B. You can find him on this-and-that address."

In reply to Re: Passing a TCP connection from one Perl program to another by muba
in thread Passing a TCP connection from one Perl program to another by Pascal666

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