If ur just trying to pull data from websites I would highly recommend LWP or
WWW-Mechanize. No need to reinvent any wheels. If this is just a
demonstration and ur trying to do something else, what u need here is
nonblocking read. As u accumulate more of the response u can inspect it to
see when to expect the end. Check out Fnctl to put the filehandle into
nonblocking mode. U then go into a read loop and check the return value of
read().
Unfortunately Fnctl is broken on Windows. U may have to use Cygwin. Jan?
At 04:36 PM 4/21/2009 -0700, gai...@visioninfosoft.com wrote:
>method 1 (below) does work to receive a response from a server. but
>requires I know in advance the number of bytes to receive.
>
>#method 2
>
>#cant something like this be done instead?
>#i would prefer to use this pseudo-code method
>#as there is no hard-coded number of bytes to receive
>#is there a way to achieve this?
># while ( $main::socket->recv($block, 8192) ) {
># $response .= $block;
># }
># print $response;
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