I have a program that I am trying to get working on my system. The program uses a GUI that is accessed thru http://localhost:8080. I cannot get my browser to connect to that address. I've done some rudimentary debugging using print statements to see where in the prog things go awry. Here is a snippet of the program where things go wrong. 
 # See if there's a connection waiting on the $server by getting the l
+ist of handles with data to
        # read, if the handle is the server then we're off.  Note the 
+0.1 second delay here when waiting
        # around.  This means that we don't hog the processor while wa
+iting for connections.
        my ($ready)   = $selector->can_read(0.1);
        my ($uiready) = $uiselector->can_read(0.1);

        # Handle HTTP requests for the UI
        if ( $uiready == $ui ) 
        {
            if ( my $client = $ui->accept() )
            {
                # Check that this is a connection from the local machi
+ne, if it's not then we drop it immediately
                # without any further processing.  We don't want to al
+low remote users to admin 
                my ( $remote_port, $remote_host ) = sockaddr_in( $clie
+nt->peername() );

                if ( $remote_host eq inet_aton( "127.0.0.1" ) )
                {
                    if ( my $request = <$client> )
                    {
                        debug( $request );
                        while ( <$client> ) 
                        {
                            if ( !/(.*): (.*)/ ) 
                            {
                                last;
                            }
                        }

                        if ( $request =~ /GET (.*) HTTP\/1\./ )
                        {
                            my $url = $1;
                            print $client handle_url($url);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            print $client http_error(500);
                        }                  
                    }
                }
                
                close $client;

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The line: if ( my $request = <$client> ) is what fails and it jumps down to the 'close $client;' line. My knowledge of Perl is not great but from what I know, <$client> is trying to read a line of data from the socket that was setup. If I print the value of $client I get: IO::Socket::INET=GLOB(0x1b4dfd8) When I try to print the value of <$client> I get no response from the program. I am running WinXP Home sp1, Internet Explorer 6 sp1 and the perl that I'm using is Activestate 5.6.1. Any ideas? Thanks

In reply to Problem reading the value of <$client> by Qitan

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