Sample code for 30+ languages & platforms
Perl Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Accept Connection on Socket

See more Socket/SSL/TLS Examples

Demonstrates how to create a TCP/IP socket, listen on a port, accept an incoming connection, and send a "Hello World" message to the client.

Chilkat Perl Downloads

Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

#  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

$listenSocket = chilkat::CkSocket->new();

#  Bind to a port and listen for incoming connections:
#  This example will listen at port 5555 and allows for a backlog
#  of 25 pending connection requests.
$success = $listenSocket->BindAndListen(5555,25);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $listenSocket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Get the next incoming connection
#  Wait a maximum of 20 seconds (20000 millisec)
$connectedSocket = chilkat::CkSocket->new();
$success = $listenSocket->AcceptNext(20000,$connectedSocket);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $listenSocket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Set maximum timeouts for reading an writing (in millisec)
$connectedSocket->put_MaxReadIdleMs(10000);
$connectedSocket->put_MaxSendIdleMs(10000);

#  Send a "Hello World!" message to the client:
$success = $connectedSocket->SendString("Hello World!");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $connectedSocket->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Close the connection with the client.
#  Wait a max of 20 seconds (20000 millsec)
$success = $connectedSocket->Close(20000);

print "success!" . "\r\n";