+1  A: 

If "run directly on the stream" means "accept connections from a remote device instead of the PHP server" then IO::Socket is a way to go. Google has plenty of examples and you can also check out perlipc documentation.

Denys  2009-05-14 06:48:35
 2009-05-14 16:29:34
If you are able to modify the server app, then you could try calling a Perl script from within PHP as described in http://devzone.zend.com/article/1712.Another approach could be passing the data to your Perl script via a pipe, another socket, a database, etc. BTW, in your existing chain of transformations you can probably do without blah_tmp.txt unless you _need_ to save it.
Denys  2009-05-15 09:35:44
awesome.....thanks for the info. I'll give those a try as soon as I get a chance...
 2009-05-15 12:06:59

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