use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;


package MyHttp;

use vars qw(@ISA);
require LWP::Protocol::http;
@ISA = qw( LWP::Protocol::http );

sub _new_socket
{
  my($self, $host, $port, $timeout) = @_;
  my $s;
  print "Creating New socket: $host, $port, $timeout\n";
  $s = $self->SUPER::_new_socket($host,$port,$timeout);
  print "ok\n";
  return $s;
}


package main;

LWP::Protocol::implementor( http => 'MyHttp' );

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { SSL_verify_mode => 'SSL_VERIFY_NONE'},);
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0)');
$ua->max_size(50000000); # 50MB at most
$ua->timeout(45);

my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://www.google.ch/");
$request->protocol('HTTP/1.0'); # we don't want chunked replies
$request->header('Accept' => '*/*');
$request->header('Accept-Encoding' => '');   # we don't want packed results
$request->header('Connection' => 'Close');
$request->header('Cache-Control' => 'no-cache');
my $resp = $ua->request($request);

if ($resp->is_success)
{
  my $data = $resp->content;
  print "$data\n";
}

##</code><code>##

$ perl porttest.pl 
Creating New socket: www.google.ch, 80, 45
$