Hey guys, long time listener, first time caller. My question is on how to best throttle/cache a simple HTTP datastream.

I am using  IO::SOCKET::INET to just connect to a port on a machine and stream the data to STDOUT. The values that come out of that stream tick by at unsteady intervals, and I would like to create a buffer/throttle/cache type datastructure to enable me to output them at a very stable, regular interval. Any ideas/modules/methods that you can think of that would make this work? I'm sure someone else has done it, but I'm really not sure how to go about it.

Since I haven't done much network programming with perl, and I couldn't locate any howtos in the usual places, (I may have just missed it) I thought I would ask my question here. Thanks in advance for your time.

Retitled by g0n from 'throttling'.

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