#!/usr/bin/perl use Socket; require 'tv.cfg'; for my $host ( keys %televisions ) { my $port = $televisions{$host}; my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto); my $sin = sockaddr_in($port, inet_aton($host)); connect(SOCK, $sin) || die "$host is dead !\n"; my $header = ; print "$header\n"; exit unless($header=~m/200|OK/); close SOCK; }; Can someone help me or advice me where to look out for more information to get some data from the streaming video server?