Sockets are described as an endpoint of bidirectional inter-process communication. Internet socket are a mechanism for delivering incoming information to the appropriate end process to be used in its own manner. A socket consists of an IP (Internet Protocol) address and a port number. By programming this, the connection can be made from one user to a remote terminal; and in this case this refers to the embedded system.

Perl was used to increase the efficiency of the text based communication from client to server. Perl’s text based capabilities are the corner stone of why it is used in most network application code.