Read/Write IO on socket file descriptor

[Patrick LeBoutillier]

Hi all,

I'm trying to perform read and write I/O on a socket file descriptor
received for another process via a Unix Domain Socket. In trying to
understand all this I came up with a small test script that is not
working for me:


use strict ;
use IO::Socket::INET ;

my $socket = new IO::Socket::INET(
PeerAddr => 'www.perl.com',
PeerPort => 80,
Proto => 'tcp',
) ;

my $rfd = fileno($socket) ;
my $rfh = new IO::Handle->fdopen($rfd, "r") ;
my $wfd = fileno($socket) ;
my $wfh = new IO::Handle->fdopen($wfd, "w") ;

print "$rfd $rfh $wfd $wfh\n" ;
print $wfh "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n" ;
print "Sent GET...\n" ;
my $line = <$rfh> ;
print $line ;


Should this work? It seems as though printing to $wfh
does nothing, and then the <$rfh> is hanging.

If this is not the way to go about this, what else can I do
to perform read AND write I/O on a socket file descriptor?

I'm using Perl 5.6.1 on Linux RH 7.1

Thanks,

Patrick LeBoutillier

[A. Sinan Unur]

[email]patrick_leboutillier@hotmail.com[/email] (Patrick LeBoutillier) wrote in
news:154121e6.0307200548.415e0d21@posting.google.c om:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to perform read and write I/O on a socket file descriptor
> received for another process via a Unix Domain Socket. In trying to
> understand all this I came up with a small test script that is not
> working for me:

I am no expert so please take what I say with a grain of salt.

> use strict ;
> use IO::Socket::INET ;
>
> my $socket = new IO::Socket::INET(
> PeerAddr => 'www.perl.com',
> PeerPort => 80,
> Proto => 'tcp',
> ) ;
>
> my $rfd = fileno($socket) ;
> my $rfh = new IO::Handle->fdopen($rfd, "r") ;
> my $wfd = fileno($socket) ;
> my $wfh = new IO::Handle->fdopen($wfd, "w") ;

$wfh->autoflush(1);

> print "$rfd $rfh $wfd $wfh\n" ;
> print $wfh "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n" ;
> print "Sent GET...\n" ;
> my $line = <$rfh> ;
> print $line ;

Also, I am not sure why you are creating $rfh and $wfh. $socket can be read
from and written to using regular Perl syntax:

#! C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe

use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Socket::INET;

my $socket = new IO::Socket::INET(
PeerAddr => 'www.perl.com',
PeerPort => 80,
Proto => 'tcp');

die "Cannot open connection: $!\n" unless $socket;

print $socket "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n";
print "Sent GET...\n";
my $line = <$socket>;
close $socket;

print $line, "\n";

__END__

Sinan.
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