Chapter 5

Client-Server in Perl

Chapter Overview

Joe would like to develop a client-server application to deliver a new car-related punchline to his mechanics each time they log on. He will use Perl's socket utilities to develop a server, and connect to this server with a homegrown client.

Chapter Objective

• Implement client-server networking with sockets

Documentation

• perlipc

Topics

• Networking concepts
• Server implementation
• Client implementation

Lab

• A quote server and client

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