my $port = shift || 2345;
my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
- $port = $1 if $port =~ /(\d+)/; # untaint port number
+
+ ($port) = $port =~ /^(\d+)$/ || die "invalid port";
socket(Server, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";
setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR,
my $port = shift || 2345;
my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
- $port = $1 if $port =~ /(\d+)/; # untaint port number
+
+ ($port) = $port =~ /^(\d+)$/ || die "invalid port";
socket(Server, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";
setsockopt(Server, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR,
IO::Socket module provides an object-oriented approach. IO::Socket is
included as part of the standard Perl distribution as of the 5.004
release. If you're running an earlier version of Perl, just fetch
-IO::Socket from CPAN, where you'll also find find modules providing easy
+IO::Socket from CPAN, where you'll also find modules providing easy
interfaces to the following systems: DNS, FTP, Ident (RFC 931), NIS and
NISPlus, NNTP, Ping, POP3, SMTP, SNMP, SSLeay, Telnet, and Time--just
to name a few.