Re: How to find out whether socket is still connected?

In Unix systems, you can try

system 'netstat -na'
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and you get information about internet connections
and sockets.

Update: you can try module Net::Netstat::Wrapper

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Re^2: How to find out whether socket is still connected? by tcf03 (Deacon) on Aug 11, 2006 at 14:08 UTC
`lsof -Pni :80` [download] will also do the trick. Of course substituting your port number for 80. Ted -- "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." --Ralph Waldo Emerson	[reply] [d/l]