#!/usr/bin/perl use Socket; $host="www.google.com"; socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0); $s=sockaddr_in(80,inet_aton($host)); if (connect(S,$s)) { print "connected to $host\n"; print S "GET \/ HTTP\/1.0\n\n"; read(S,$data,100) || die; close(S); } else { die "connect failed\n" } print $data;