You say that your client does not have an internet connection.

From the specification of the script you are trying to write, it sounds like they do, and you need to provide some sort of proxy to access it.

If that is the case, then I think you would be better served by looking at existing proxy software such as squid, and seeing how you can configure it to suit your needs.

In any case, you don't want to do network programming at the packet level if you don't have to. To operate a web proxy, even your rather strange one, you should be working at the TCP/IP stream level, but before you dive in, I think you need to step back and understand a bit better what your client needs.

In reply to Re: Networking in perl by chrestomanci
in thread Networking in perl by KVB

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