Client/Server Password question

[commodorejim]

Hi everyone,

I've recently started experimenting with PERL in the area of sockets and networks.

I've gotten the two programs listed below working on my own machine (through localhost).

However, I want to prompt the server to ask the client for a password, printing a message if the correct password is entered or not.

The problem I'm having is how do I send the values I read in in the client program to the server program?
I know how to check for these values but I'm stumped as to how to send the string that's entered client-side to the server-side. Or am I completely on the wrong track?


Server Program

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# server2way.pl - a server that reads from
# and writes to a client
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use Sys::Hostname;
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
                   LocalHost => 'localhost',
                   LocalPort => 7890,
                   Proto     => 'tcp',
                   Listen    => SOMAXCONN,
                   Reuse     => 1);
$sock or die "no socket :$!";
STDOUT->autoflush(1);
my($new_sock, $buf);






while ($new_sock = $sock->accept()) 

{

	

    	while (defined($buf = <$new_sock>)) 
    	
    	{
 
   		foreach ($buf) 
   		
   		{
            		/^HELLO$/ and print($new_sock "Enter Name: \n"), last;
            		
            		
           
            		
            	
            		
            
            		 /^NAME$/  and print($new_sock "Enter Password: \n"), last;
                 
                 
       			/^DATE$/  and print($new_sock scalar(localtime), "\n"),last;
       	
       			print $new_sock "DEFAULT\n";
   		}
   		
    	}
   
   
   	close $new_sock;
}

Client Program

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# client2way.pl - a client that writes to
# and reads from a server
use strict;
use IO::Socket;
my $host = shift || 'localhost';
my $port = shift || 7890;
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
                  PeerAddr => $host,
                  PeerPort => $port,
                  Proto    => 'tcp');
$sock or die "no socket :$!";
# send message to server


print $sock "HELLO\n";
print scalar <$sock>;
my $name =<STDIN>;



print $sock "NAME\n";
print scalar <$sock>;
my $guess=<STDIN>;


print $sock "DATE\n";
print scalar <$sock>;


print $sock "NONE\n";
print scalar <$sock>;




close $sock;