I am trying to build a perl based server that will accept incoming requests and, based on that request, read/write data to server's STDIN/OUT. So I need to accept data from the client STDIN, write it to the server's STDIN (where it is handled by another process), capture the results of that request from the server's STDOUT and then ship it to the client.
I was hoping to build this off of Net::Server but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to direct data specifically to the server's STDIN. In my ideal world I'd have a set of file handles like CLISTDIN, CLISTDOUT, SRVSTDIN, and SRVSTDOUT that I could discretely address and manage. I'm just at a loss of how to go about it in Net::Server.
I don't have to use Net::Server so other suggestions are welcome. Net::Server just has a number of other features I would like to use.
Thanks for any insight.
Turns out I could do this by overloading post_accept to change how STDIN/STDOUT were being used. I was able to create two distinct filehandles so I could refer to the client IN/OUT without breaking the servers IO. That said, Net::Server kept getting in the way of what IO wanted to do so I abandoned it and just rolled my own forking server. Ended up being easier overall.