I am in the process of writing a server that will accept an xml file, parse it, then send a response back based on the file.

I have successfully written the Server and a mock Client in Perl which communicate wonderfully through a tcp connection on port 80. The problem is, when the actual client connects using their client app, it passes a POST header which the server takes in but it stops responding when the xml data is passed.

At this point I want to take in all the information from the client request. I have a packet sniffer open and it's showing me the POST request which the server accepts and writes. After that, the sniffer shows a continuation which holds the XML data from the client. The server stops after printing the Header POST, and no XML is printed.

use IO::Socket;
$local = IO::Socket::INET->new(
        Proto      => 'tcp',        
        LocalAddr => '192.168.150.131:80',            Reuse     => 1
        ) or die "$!";
$local->listen();    
print "Awaiting client...\n";
my $addr;    
while ($addr = $local->accept() ) {    
    print     "Connecting from: ", $addr->peerhost();    
    print    " Port: ", $addr->peerport(), "\n";
    while (<$addr>) { 
        print "Client: $_";
    }
    close $addr;    # close client
    print "Idle...\n";    
}
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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
DWW

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