I am to write a perl tool to test an own Apache module. I have some mysterious problems with low-level socket.

socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto)  || die "socket: $!";
connect(SOCK, $paddr)    || die "connect: $!";

print "Host reached\n-----------------\n" ;
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The connections is ok! Next comes the problem:

    send SOCK, "$lines\n",MSG_OOB ;


    $res = recv SOCK, $line,1024,MSG_OOB ;
    while ( defined($res) )
    {
        print $line ;
        $res = recv SOCK, $line,1024,MSG_OOB ;
    }

    print "Closed\n" ;
    close SOCK ;
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The message is correctly submittet to the Apache server, I could check it from the acces-log and the error-log. (The last shows that our module correctly processed the incoming data.) The socket seems to close down BEFORE Apache could send back the reply....

Any ideas?

Gabaux