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in reply to how do you make a server program accept connections infinitely?

Just open up a new socket for your server and listen on that socket for incoming connections in an accept loop. There are examples in perlipc of both the IO::Socket and, well, non-IO::Socket variety. Just in case you don't want to use that module.

Here's the basic idea:

use IO::Socket; my $port = 9000; # set up a new server running on $port my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto => 'tcp', LocalPort => $port, Reuse => 1) or die "Can't start server"; # sit in a loop and wait for connections while ($client = $server->accept()) { # handle client # .... # done with client, so close up connection close $client; }
Is this what you meant by "infinite"?