#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
                                 PeerAddr => '127.0.0.1',
                                 PeerPort => '7070',
                                 Proto => 'tcp',
                                 );
die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
print $sock "Hello there!\n";
while(<STDIN>)
{
    print $sock $_;
}

close($sock);