Dear Monks,
I am trying to write a script that will perform an HTTP get and analyze the server response.
This should be done in a loop and for performance I would like to create the socket to the server only once and perform the GET on the open socket.
When running my script the socket gets closed and I get an error. Only if I open a new socket, which makes me perform the – syn, syn-ack, ack – all over again, am I able to perform the GET.
How can I accomplish this with one socket?
This is the main script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
use Encode;
use utf8;

unless (@ARGV > 0) { die "usage: host ..." }
$host = shift(@ARGV);
$EOL = "\015\012";
$BLANK = $EOL x 2;

$remote = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto     => "tcp",
                     PeerAddr  => $host,
                     PeerPort  => "http(80)",
                      );
unless ($remote) { die "cannot connect to http daemon on $host" }
$remote->autoflush(1);

while (1) {
    $msg = "GET /engine3.php?req_sale=5205&page=1\r\n";
    $remote->send($msg);
    while ( <$remote> ) { 
        $temp .= $_; 
    }
    utf8::encode($temp);
    print "$temp\n";
    undef($temp);
    sleep(2);    
#    close $remote;
}

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Regards,
Adi.

In reply to IO::Socket, Multiple GET. by adismaug

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