I will check it out, thanks a lot.
Is there any reason why telnet is not a suitable solution? Because I find that Net::Telnet might just do the job, I don't know how to use it yet but it seems like it allows me to make client connections to a TCP port and do network I/O, especially to a port using the TELNET protocol. I don't know if it provides any I/O methods but like, so far I have these code at least these will work for connecting:
use Net::Telnet ();
$t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 10,
Prompt => '/ksh\$ $/');
$t->open($host);
$t->login($username, $passwd);
is this correct? What to do after taht I don't know, hopefully I can find out by doing more research, but this seems like it owuld do the job, what do you think?
Kelvin