Was there a perl question in there somewhere?
By "write" I meant "in perl". Consider it a learning experience. Also, all I need is something that will run scripts from a cgi-bin locally based on a singular, established connection. Having never used apache, I figured that by the time I understand it I could have written something to do this (in perl).
This is what I have so far based on various examples:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# simple server
use Socket;
use IO::Handle;
socket(SERV, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM,0);
unlink "/tmp/testsock";
bind(SERV,sockaddr_un("/tmp/testsock")) or print "ERROR!";
listen(SERV,1);
while (accept(CLIENT,SERV)) {
CLIENT->autoflush(1);
print CLIENT "Hi there!\n";
my $answer = <CLIENT>;
print $answer;
}
and
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# simple client
use Socket;
use IO::Handle;
socket(TSOCK, PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM,0);
connect(TSOCK, sockaddr_un("/tmp/testsock")) or print("ERROR!");
while (defined(my $messg = <TSOCK>)) {
print $messg;
print TSOCK "Hello server!";
TSOCK->flush;
}
This works to the point where the server should recieve and print the answer from the client -- it doesn't. The initial "Hi there!" is recieved and printed tho. Once I can get back and forth communication working, I should be able to figure out what to do next.
Being kind of a luddite, I preferred not to use IO::Socket for the learning experiment. |