Use of uninitialized value at ./gethtml.pl line 16, <my_socket> chunk 1.

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#/usr/bin/perl -w
#gethtml.pl : HTML fetch and return. 28 MAR 2000 rev 1

use Socket;
use strict;                                        

sub gethtml {
my $my_url = $_[0];             
my ($my_host, $my_request, $my_html_return) = '';            
($my_host, $my_url) = ($my_url =~ m#(.*?)/(.*)#);

$my_request = "GET \/$my_url HTTP/1.0\nAccept: */*\nHost:$my_host\nUser-Agent: WebMangle/1.0\n\n";

socket(my_socket, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, getprotobyname('tcp')) || return "Socket Error: $!";

connect(my_socket, sockaddr_in(80,inet_aton($my_host))) || return "Connect Error: $!";

send(my_socket, $my_request, 0x0);  
while(<my_socket>) {$my_html_return = $my_html_return . $_;}  
#above line is the offending one 

close my_socket || return "Close Error: $!";
return $my_html_return;
}
1;