There are two ways to do this. You can write a daemon and bind it to the port. You can use something like IO::Socket for that. If all you want is a simple script that just sends some sort of response when it is connected to, just use inetd.conf to map a specific port to your script. (see man inetd.conf) This is by far the quickest and easiest way to do it. TBH you don't need a book. Doing it through inetd is easy, you need something like this: /etc/services robintest 1234/tcp /etc/inetd.conf robintest stream tcp nowait root /var/home/robin/test.pl This runs the script /var/home/robin/test.pl as UID root when you telnet to port 1234. That should be enough to get a basic web page sent out anyway. R R At 08:12 PM 02/03/02 +0000, you wrote: >Hi All, > >I'm trying to write a perl script that listens to a specific port and >returns a web page when that port is accessed. > >What would be the best way to do this? I searched the logs of this list and >found something, but the last result was in 1996, so I figure things will >have changed by now. Is there a good book I could buy on this ? > >TIA, > >Mark Carruth > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-devel-list mailing list >Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
