I am trying to create a very simple webserver which can write to and read from a socket. I have been getting several different suggestions to use either IO::Socket or IO::Socket::INET. I don't know which would be better and why. Could someone please give me a quick explanation thanks!

This is what I have so far for my code, please any suggestions are very appreciated! 


use IO::Socket::INET;

my $socklist = new IO::Socket::INET (Listen    =>1,
                                     LocalHOST =>'localhost',
                                     LocalPort => 6500,
                                     Proto     => 'tcp',
                                     Reuse     => 1);
die "I couldn't create socket: $!\n" unless $socklist;


my $sock_acpt = $socklist->accept();
        while($sock_acpt){
                print $_;
}
close($socklist);


my $sockcli = new IO::Socket::INET (
                        PeerAddr => 'Chromium',
                        PeerPort => '6500',
                        Proto => 'tcp',
                        );
die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sockcli;
print $sockcli "hello there!\n";
close($sockcli);

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In reply to IO::Socket vs IO::Socket::INET for simple webserver by corwin18

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