I actually linked to that first one at the top...

I have yet to try a $new_socket->fdopen( $id, "+>" ) though. It's worth a shot. But I think the actual problem relates to the wrong choice of recv(). I'm pretty sure I need to also try read() with atmark() instead.

Do you have to flush the socket (or something) somehow when you use recv()? Ultimately I need to do a lot more experiments. This project should not be difficult. *sigh*