Go4Expert - Proxy using Perl

I was wondering whether its possible to write a program which acts like a proxy server in Perl, so what I figured out was anything is possible with Perl. Below is the code, try it, its wonderful.
I used threads to manage multiple requests, so the program can handle multiple requests concurrently. :)
More can be done with IO::Socket in Perl.

Code: Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
 #use strict;
 use URI;
 use IO::Socket;
 use threads('yield', 'stack_size' => 64*4096);
 
 # don't want to die on 'Broken pipe' or Ctrl-C
 $SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE';
 
 my $showOpenedSockets=1;
 
 my $server = IO::Socket::INET->new (
    LocalPort => 8080,
    Type      => SOCK_STREAM,
    Reuse     => 1,
    Listen    => 18);
 
 binmode $server;
 
 while (my $browsera = $server->accept()) {
   print "\n\n----Accepted Connection--------\n";
 
   binmode $browsera;
   my $t = threads->new(\&fetch, $browsera);
   $t->detach;
 
 }
 
 
 sub fetch{
   
   my $browser = $_[0];
   my $method              ="";
   my $content_length      = 0;
   my $content             = 0;
   my $accu_content_length = 0;
   my $host;
   my $hostAddr;
   my $httpVer;
 
   while (my $browser_line = <$browser>) {
     unless ($method) {
       ($method, $hostAddr, $httpVer) = $browser_line =~ /^(\w+) +(\S+) +(\S+)/;
 
       print "$hostAddr";
       my $uri = URI->new($hostAddr) or print "Could not build URI for $hostAddr";
 
       $host = IO::Socket::INET->new (
         PeerAddr=> $uri->host,
         PeerPort=> $uri->port );
 
         die "couldn't open $hostAddr" unless $host;
 
       if ($showOpenedSockets) {
         print "Opened ".$uri->host." , port ".$uri->port."\n";
       }
 
       binmode $host;
 
       print $host "$method ".$uri->path_query." $httpVer\n";
       print "$method ".$uri->path_query." $httpVer\n";
       next;
     }
 
     $content_length = $1 if      $browser_line=~/Content-length: +(\d+)/i;
     $accu_content_length+=length $browser_line;
 
     #print $browser_line;
 
     print $host $browser_line;
 
     last if $browser_line =~ /^\s*$/ and $method ne 'POST';
     if ($browser_line =~ /^\s*$/ and $method eq "POST") {
       $content = 1;
       last unless $content_length;
       next;
     }
     if ($content) {
       $accu_content_length+=length $browser_line;
       last if $accu_content_length >= $content_length;
     }
   }
   print "\n\nThread id --> ".threads->self->tid()."\n";
   print "No of. threads at present --> ".threads->list()."\n";
   print "Stack size --> ".threads->get_stack_size()."\n";
   
   $content_length      = 0;
   $content             = 0;
   $accu_content_length = 0;
   while (my $host_line = <$host>) {
     #print $host_line;
     print $browser $host_line;
     $content_length = $1 if $host_line=~/Content-length: +(\d+)/i;
     if ($host_line =~ m/^\s*$/ and not $content) {
       $content = 1;
       #last unless $content_length;
       next;
     }
     if ($content) {
       if ($content_length) {
         $accu_content_length+=length $host_line;
         #print "\nContent Length: $content_length, accu: $accu_content_length\n";
         last if $accu_content_length >= $content_length;
       }
     }
   }
   $browser-> close;
   $host   -> close;
 
   print "---- End thread ----\n";
 }