NAME

Coro::Socket - non-blocking socket-I/O

SYNOPSIS

use Coro::Socket;

# listen on an ipv4 socket
my $socket = new Coro::Socket PeerHost => "localhost",
                              PeerPort => 'finger';

# listen on any other type of socket
my $socket = Coro::Socket->new_from_fh
                (IO::Socket::UNIX->new
                    Local  => "/tmp/socket",
                    Type   => SOCK_STREAM,
                );

DESCRIPTION

This module is an AnyEvent user, you need to make sure that you use and run a supported event loop.

This module implements socket-handles in a coroutine-compatible way, that is, other coroutines can run while reads or writes block on the handle. See Coro::Handle, especially the note about prefering method calls.

IPV6 WARNING

This module was written to imitate the IO::Socket::INET API, and derive from it. Since IO::Socket::INET does not support IPv6, this module does neither.

Therefore it is not recommended to use Coro::Socket in new code. Instead, use AnyEvent::Socket and Coro::Handle, e.g.:

use Coro;
use Coro::Handle;
use AnyEvent::Socket;

# use tcp_connect from AnyEvent::Socket
# and call Coro::Handle::unblock on it.

tcp_connect "www.google.com", 80, Coro::rouse_cb;
my $fh = unblock +(Coro::rouse_wait)[0];

# now we have a perfectly thread-safe socket handle in $fh
print $fh "GET / HTTP/1.0\015\012\015\012";
local $/;
print <$fh>;

Using AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_connect gives you transparent IPv6, multi-homing, SRV-record etc. support.

For listening sockets, use AnyEvent::Socket::tcp_server.

$fh = new Coro::Socket param => value, ...

Create a new non-blocking tcp handle and connect to the given host and port. The parameter names and values are mostly the same as for IO::Socket::INET (as ugly as I think they are).

The parameters officially supported currently are: ReuseAddr, LocalPort, LocalHost, PeerPort, PeerHost, Listen, Timeout, SO_RCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF.

$fh = new Coro::Socket PeerHost => "localhost", PeerPort => 'finger';

AUTHOR

Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
http://home.schmorp.de/