Hi. I'm using Amazon SNS to send/receive HTTP notifications. Sending works ok but for receiving, I need a simple socket server that would accept inbound HTTP messages. I created this (quick & dirty) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
use strict;

# Turn on autoflushing
$| = 1;
my $port = 54321;
my $server = IO::Socket->new(
        Domain    => PF_INET,
        Proto     => 'tcp',
        LocalPort => $port,
        Listen    => SOMAXCONN,
        Reuse     => 1,
);
die "Bind failed: $!\n" unless $server;
my $new_sock = $server->accept();
while(<$new_sock>) {
        print $_ . "\n";
}
close($server);

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However, what happens is that I get ALL of the data incoming EXCEPT that very last byte. The last byte is a squiggly } and I don't get it until much later. It's really strange. And then Amazon attempts to resend the message again. So, it ends up getting all screwed up. I have a feeling accepting raw TCP packets is not the right way, that I'm missing something inherent to HTTP. What am I doing wrong, can you please help? Thank you.

In reply to problems accepting HTTP packets from Amazon by coontie

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