I'm researching how to implement a Socket connection with a web page. All the examples I've found seem to be NOT for a web page as the clients are all in Perl.

My backend is vanilla Perl. The client will be an HTML page. I need a real time exchange between the two so multiple users (max 4 or 5) can have the web page open and make updates that each will see right away.

I see lots of examples on of the server script which appears straightforward. I've found nothing that shows the client side (the HTML page in the browser) that could connect with the Perl socket server script.

So, does anyone have an example (both sides) that why would be willing to share? I need to see what to do on the web page side to work with the server side.

Pretty please and thank you for your time.

In reply to Socket connection with Perl (server side) and HTML web page. by TorontoJim

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