awk networking through sockets

Hi,

I have been trying every now and then to get awk communicate trough sockets.

What I have found so far:
Network Administration with AWK
TCP/IP Internetworking With `gawk'

How can I implement these tutorials on my Debian box? When I try the first example of the first link, I am greeted by a:

I imagine debian stores its sockets somewhere else but where?

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Ok. Found a way of achieving some kind of TCP networking:
http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/125411-simple-http-server-gawk.html\#post302377991