use Socket;

BEGIN {
	*CORE::GLOBAL::connect = sub(*$) {
		my ($socket, $name) = @_;

		return CORE::connect($socket, $name) if (scalar(caller 2) eq 'IO::Socket::Socks');
		
		my ($port, $host) = sockaddr_in($name);
		$host = inet_ntoa($host);
			
		$_[0] = IO::Socket::Socks->new(
			ProxyAddr => 'localhost',
			ProxyPort => 1080,
			SocksVersion => 5,
			ConnectAddr => $host,
			ConnectPort => $port,
			SocksDebug => 1
		) or return undef;
			
		return 1;
	}
}

use IO::Socket::Socks;

##</code><code>##

my $remote = "perlmonks.org";
my $port = 80;
my $iaddr = inet_aton($remote) || die "no host: $remote";
my $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);
my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
socket(my $sock, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";
connect($sock, $paddr);
syswrite($sock, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n");
close $sock;

##</code><code>##

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new('perlmonks.org:80')
	or die $@;
$sock->syswrite("GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n");
$sock->close();