use IO::Socket; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( LocalHost => '168.159.250.206', LocalPort => '5988', Proto => 'tcp', Listen => 500, Reuse => 1, ); $sock->sockopt(SO_RCVBUF, 1500); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock; my $new_sock = $sock->accept(); my $a = ""; while(<$new_sock>) { $new_sock->autoflush(1); print $_; $a = $a.$_; } print "a is $a"; #close($sock);