What is the difference between doing the following: close( $server ); # $server->close(); # $server->shutdown();
?? Sincerely, Brice Ruth Brice D Ruth wrote: > I have a perl script that was running fine under IIS/5.0 with > ActivePerl 6xx - I'll put the salient parts here: > > use IO::Socket; > use CGI; > > $in = new CGI; > > $server = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr=> "...",PeerPort=> > ...,Proto=>"tcp",Type=> SOCK_STREAM) or die "Error message ... $@"; > > $server->autoflush(1); > > ... (information is gotten from $server via <$server>) > ... (information is sent to $server via 'print $server ...') > > ... (server's response is read via <$server> and printed to browser > via 'print') > > close ($server); > > That's it - a very simple Perl script that basically takes information > from the GET or POST strings, sends it to a server process and reads > its response, printing it out to the browser. > > I've now moved the script to Apache 1.3.20 w/ mod_perl 1.25 (I think > its 1.25, but it may be 1.26 - the server's not running at the moment, > else I'd find out for sure). It *seems* that the script can run once, > but that the next time it is accessed, it cannot connect to the > $server anylonger, it dies with a 'connection timed out' message ... > What 'gotcha' is causing this? > > Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!! > > Sincerely, > Brice D Ruth > -- WebProjkt, Inc. VP, Director of Internet Technology http://www.webprojkt.com/
