Take a look at the networking code from "Advanced Perl Programming" (here is the example code directory). In particular look in the Networking directory for Msg.pm, the server code is toward the bottom. You can look at the code and get some ideas or you may be able to subclass Msg.pm to meet your needs. The RPC.pm class is an example of subclassing the Msg.pm class.

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