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There's a lot more to networking than this, but this should get you started.
For intrepid programmers, the indispensable textbook is Unix Network Programming, 2nd Edition, Volume 1 by W. Richard Stevens (published by Prentice-Hall). Note that most books on networking address the subject from the perspective of a C programmer; translation to Perl is left as an exercise for the reader.
The IO::Socket(3) manpage describes the object library, and the Socket(3)
manpage describes the low-level interface to sockets. Besides the obvious
functions in the perlfunc manpage, you should also check out the modules file
at your nearest CPAN site. (See the perlmodlib manpage or best yet, the Perl
FAQ for a description of what CPAN is and where to get it.)
Section 5 of the modules file is devoted to ``Networking, Device Control (modems), and Interprocess Communication'', and contains numerous unbundled modules numerous networking modules, Chat and Expect operations, CGI programming, DCE, FTP, IPC, NNTP, Proxy, Ptty, RPC, SNMP, SMTP, Telnet, Threads, and ToolTalk--just to name a few.
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