yikes, please ignore extraneous asterisks in snippet.
this is corrected:
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the server code ( perl) snippet:
my $NULLBYTE = pack( 'c', 0 );
....
if ( $1 eq "new" ) {
print STDOUT "request is: $1 sending xml data\n";
print CONNSOCK $simdata ;
print CONNSOCK $NULLBYTE;
}
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the flex code snippet:
var socket:XMLSocket = new XMLSocket();
socket.addEventListener(Event.CONNECT, connected);
socket.addEventListener(DataEvent.DATA, dataReceived);
socket.connect("localhost", 8989);
private function connected(event:Event):void
{
socket.send(xmldata);
}
private function dataReceived(dataEvent:DataEvent):void
{
trace(dataEvent.data);
var xml:XML = new XML(dataEvent.data);
}
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Thanks