Interactive socket connection

[Rayed Al-Rashed]

Hello,

I am trying to build POP3 proxy, I want it to run from "inetd" so it should 
communicate with the user using regular stdin, stdout.
I built a small code that should run as general proxy for any protocol, but 
I faced the following problem, it doesn't show any output from the server 
until I pass it a command, for example:

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user rayed
+OK POP3 pop.mydomain.com server ready
pass mypass
+OK User name accepted, password please
rert 1
-ERR Bad login
quit
-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command

+OK Sayonara
-----------------------------------------

Any ideas what the problem is?
Thanks in advance,

- rayed




This the proxy code
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#!/usr/bin/python
# POP3 proxy

import sys
import string
import socket
import asyncore
import select

class proxy (asyncore.dispatcher):
         def __init__(self, server, port):
                 asyncore.dispatcher.__init__(self)
                 self.create_socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
                 self.connect ((server, port))

         def handle_connect (self):
                 pass

         def handle_read (self):
                 buf = self.recv(8012)
                 sys.stdout.write( buf )

         def handle_write (self):
                 buf = sys.stdin.readline()
                 self.send(buf)

         def handle_close (self):
                 print "Closed"

if __name__ == '__main__':
         p = proxy("pop.mydomain.com", 110)
         asyncore.loop()