I wouldv'e replied to the original node but I think the html was messed up.

You may want to look at IO::Socket::INET. You are connecting using a UDP connection, but you are trying to communicate with it as if it was a TCP connection. Quake needs the UDP. To communicate with UDP, try the following:

my $buffer = undef;
$remote_sock->send("My stuff to send",0);
$remote_sock->recv($buffer,4096,0); # SOCK, LEN, OFFSET
# $buffer will now contain the response
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Hope that helps...

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