in reply to Port stuff

Let me try to make my question a little more clearer, because I didn't explain it very well initially.

'jazz.logicware.com:10055' when opened with telnet returns some lines of plain text, and then closes the connection. I want to ultimatly have a script that will act like that server, but also once somebody opens that port, the script will read from the original (eg. logicware) server, and forward that text on to the user.
And since I am obviously new at this, I would just like to know how to do those two functions seperatly so that I could learn how to do more with this stuff.

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Re: Re: Port stuff
by repson (Chaplain) on Feb 15, 2001 at 13:16 UTC
    For that you should combine jeffa's responce above with this psudeo-code (I don't want to give you a solution to copy and paste) and documentation for IO::Socket may be useful too: 
    bind to port
for every client on port
  connect to remote server
  get text from remote server
  send text to client
next client

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    Or if the text is constant 
    connect to remote server
store text from remote server
bind to port
for every client on port
  send stored text to client
next client

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